ISBN:
9780822380290
,
0822380293
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 334 p.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Freeman, Carla, 1961 - High tech and high heels in the global economy
DDC:
331.4/81004/0972981
Keywords:
Women electronic data processing personnel
;
Women offshore assembly industry workers
;
Women electronic data processing personnel ; Caribbean Area
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Women offshore assembly industry workers ; Caribbean Area
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Karibik
;
Elektronikindustrie
;
Frau
;
Beschäftigung
Abstract:
Introduction -- 2 Pink-Collar Bajans: Working Class through Gender and Culture on the Global AssemblyLine -- 3 Localizing Informatics: Situating Women and Work in Barbados -- 4 Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs: Local Profilesof Global Workers -- 5 Inside Multitext and Data Air: Discipline and Agency in the "Open Office" -- 6 Fashioning Femininity and "Professional" Identities: Producing and Consuming Across Formal and Informal Sectors -- 7 Epilogue.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-322) and index
DOI:
10.1215/9780822380290
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822380290
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822380290
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