High tech and high heels in the global economy : women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean /
The lives of women workers in Barbados, who perform high tech jobs out-sourced by U.S. corporations.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.