High tech and high heels in the global economy : women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean /

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The lives of women workers in Barbados, who perform high tech jobs out-sourced by U.S. corporations.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Freeman, Carla (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Women electronic data processing personnel > Caribbean Area.
Women offshore assembly industry workers > Caribbean Area.
Informatique > Personnel féminin > Caraïbes (Région)
Entreprises délocalisées > Personnel féminin > Caraïbes (Région)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women electronic data processing personnel
Women offshore assembly industry workers
Elektronikindustrie
Beschäftigung
Frau
Informatieindustrie.
Vrouwenberoepen.
Sociale identiteit.
Internationalisatie.
Caribbean Area
Karibik
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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