Shaping Women's Work: Gender, Employment and Information Technology

ISBN-13: 9780582218109 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 232 str.

Juliet Webster

Opis

An innovative book offering a broad overview of the debates about technology and gender relations at work in a range of occupational settings. It looks at the ways gender relations influence the design and development of technologies and how gender relations themselves are shaped by technology.

Spis treści

1. Series Editor's Preface
2. Acknowledgements
3. The Terrain of this Book
4. Perspectives on Women's Work and Technology
5. Gender Relations in the Shaping of Technologies
6. Information and Communication Technologies and the Shaping of Women's Employment
7. Secretaries and Seamstresses, Clerks and Cashiers - Information Technologies and Women's Labour Processes
8. Women in Systems Design - Values, Methods and Artefacts
9. The Lessons of Feminist Research on Women's Work and IT

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O autorze

Juliet Webster