Shaping Women's Work by Juliet Webster
A new book offering a broad overview of the debates about technologies and gender relations at work in a range of occupational areas. Innovative in its approach it deals with gender relations in terms of the ways in which they influence the design and development of technologies, and how gender relations are themselves shaped by technologies. The book will draw heavily on the theoretical perspective looking at the ways in which sexual divisions of labour and gender relations in the workplace profoundly affect the direction and pace of technological change, and tracks the development of certain technologies showing how, through their evolution, they embody these social relations.
'.. a remarkable achievement in the field of woman's paid work and information technologies xxx; empirically enriching and politically inspiring.' Swasti Mitter, Deputy Director of United Nations Institute for new technologies Maastricht
Ken Ducatel is currently seconded to the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Sevilla, Spain, from his post as senior lecturer in the Management of New Technology at PREST, the University of Manchester, UK. Juliet Webster is a research fellow in the employment research unit at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Werner Herrmann is unit head in the directorate general for education and culture of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, and visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780582218109 |
| ISBN 10 | 0582218101 |
| Title | Shaping Women's Work |
| Author | Juliet Webster |
| Series | Longman Sociology Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-11-11 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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