Download or read book Computer Chips and Paper Clips written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues. Panel on Technology and Women's Employment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1987-01-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to Volume I presents individually authored papers covering the history, economics, and sociology of women's work and the computer revolution. Topics include the implications for equal employment opportunity in light of new technologies; a case study of the insurance industry and of women in computer-related occupations; a study of temporary, part-time, and at-home employment; and education and retraining opportunities.
Download or read book Computer Chips and Paper Clips written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-02-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the historical changes in five areasâ€"the jobs of telephone operators, workers in the printing and publishing industries, information and data processors, retail clerks, and nursesâ€"this volume offers a comprehensive examination of how microelectronics and telecommunications have affected women's work and their working environments and looks ahead to what can be expected for women workers in the next decade. It also offers perspectives on how workers can more easily adapt to the changing workplace and addresses the controversial topic of job insecurity as a result of an influx of advanced electronic systems.
Download or read book Computer Chips and Paper Clips written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues. Panel on Technology and Women's Employment and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Computer Chips and Paper Clips written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1987-02-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to Volume I presents individually authored papers covering the history, economics, and sociology of women's work and the computer revolution. Topics include the implications for equal employment opportunity in light of new technologies; a case study of the insurance industry and of women in computer-related occupations; a study of temporary, part-time, and at-home employment; and education and retraining opportunities.
Download or read book Women Science and Technology written by Mary Wyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm.
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Download or read book Beyond the Typewriter written by Sharon Hartman Strom and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women officeworkers' ambitions and explore how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies. "A richly textured and interesting book. . . . Enriches our understanding of the history of the labor force in general and office work in particular." -- American Historical Review "Strom shows, better than any other labor historian has, how class, age, and marital status divided women in the office." -- Women's Review of Books "Using massive quantitative and qualitative data, the author thoroughly examines the social conditions, prevailing ideologies, and individual responses involved. . . . Well recommended." -- Choice
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