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Women Encounter Technology : Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World.

This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work in the Third World.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitter, Swasti
Otros Autores: Rowbotham, Sheila
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction; Information technology and working women's demands; Feminist approaches to technology: women's values or a gender lens?; Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles; Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women; Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia.
  • Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transitionComputerization and women's employment in India's banking sector; Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia; Women in software programming: the experience of Brazil; Something old, something new, something borrowed The electronics industry in Calcutta; Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion?; Gend.