Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana /

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Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smith explores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of different socio-economic forces, con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Beatrice Quarshie, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012.
Temas:
Women > Employment > Effect of technological innovations on > Ghana.
Offshore outsourcing > Ghana.
Information technology > Economic aspects > Ghana.
Globalization > Economic aspects > Ghana.
Femmes > Travail > Effets des innovations sur > Ghāna.
Impartition à l'étranger > Ghāna.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect économique > Ghāna.
Mondialisation > Ghāna.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Globalization > Economic aspects
Information technology > Economic aspects
Offshore outsourcing
Women > Employment > Effect of technological innovations on
Ghana
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Preface and background
  • Preface: Gender, biography, and the researcher: locating the "self" in the study of "new" workspaces
  • Gender and globalizing processes
  • The ethnographic context: Ghana fifty-five years after independence
  • Part 2. Gender in the globalization debate
  • Gender politics and women in Ghana: a short "herstory"
  • Gender, knowledge and "new" work
  • Part 3. Research practices
  • Multi-sited ethnography and hybrid spaces
  • Part 4. Literacy practices in the "new" workspaces of the global South
  • Outsourcing as "glocalization:" material practices and fluid workspaces
  • Literacies of outsourcing: "scapes" and "flows" of "new" work
  • Part 5. Conclusion
  • new workplace practices for new times
  • The "new" world of work: women and workplace literacy practice
  • a social practice perspective.

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