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Women Encounter Technology
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Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
Women Encounter Technology
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Women Encounter Technology book
Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1995
eBook Published 24 April 1997
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 376
eBook ISBN 9780203208618
Subjects Area Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
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Mitter, S., & Rowbotham, S. (Eds.). (1995). Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203208618
ABSTRACT
This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work. The volume is edited by two pre-eminent scholars in the field and contains thirteen articles from leading academics worldwide.
The book provides a critique of postmodernism and ecofeminism and demands that new technology is used as a vehicle for gender equality in the developing world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|26 pages
Feminist approaches to technology
Women’s values or a gender lens?
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 4|23 pages
Conflicting demands of new technology and household work
Women’s work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 6|16 pages
Information technology and women’s employment in manufacturing in eastern Europe
The case of Slovenia
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 7|23 pages
Restructuring and retraining
The Canadian garment industry in transition
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 8|27 pages
Computerization and women’s employment in India’s banking sector
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 9|28 pages
Information technology, gender and employment
A case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 11|23 pages
Something old, something new, something borrowed… The electronics industry in Calcutta
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 12|22 pages
Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa
A topic for discussion?
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 13|25 pages
Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing
Learning from international experience
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 14|11 pages
Using information technology as a mobilizing force
The case of the Tanzania Media Women’s Association (TAMWA)
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
chapter 15|27 pages
The fading of the collective dream?
Reflections on twenty years’ research on information technology and women’s employment
Edited BySwasti Mitter, Sheila Rowbotham
