Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (UNU, 1995, 356 p.): 2. Information technology and working women's demands: References

Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World (UNU, 1995, 356 p.)

(introduction...)

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Beyond the politics of difference

(introduction...)

Who are the women of the third world?

Accounting for women's position in information technology

IT and the world of work: Manufacturing and services sectors

Disembodied technology: Software and data entry work

Postmodernism: A shift from collective to individual

Ecofeminism and the politics of identity in the developing world

Notes

References

2. Information technology and working women's demands

(introduction...)

The changing requirements in skills

Mismatch between demand and supply of cognitive skills: Implications for women

Computer technology and the small scale sector

Women in new-tech service industries

Changing location of work and the new international division of labour

Health hazards of new technology

At the margin of new technology: Groups and countries

Transcending the politics of gender

Notes

References

3. Feminist approaches to technology

(introduction...)

Introduction

Reframing the question

The impact of technology

Conclusion

Notes

References

4. Conflicting demands of new technology and household work

(introduction...)

The context

The restructuring of the textiles industry: Technology and new organizational models

Technology-induced job losses

Technical change and labour use

Vocational training and retraining patterns for textiles: Implications for women

The work environment in textiles

Textile workers' households3

Women workers' perceptions and voices

Notes

References

5. Changes in textiles

(introduction...)

Introduction

Scope and methodology

Technological and organizational developments

Empirical evidence from country case studies

The experience of Japan and the Asian NIEs

Emerging issues

Notes

6. Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe

(introduction...)

Introduction

Technological reconstruction

Profiles of selected sectors

Methodology

Extent of technological changes

An assessment of Slovene experience

Notes

References

7. Restructuring and retraining

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Introduction1

Field work

Review of the literature

New managerial strategies

The garment industry in transition

The workforce

Implications for social policy

Conclusion

Notes

References

8. Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector

(introduction...)

Introduction

Research methods

The banking industry, history and technological changes

Impact of computerization on the workforce

Women's employment in banking

The quality of women's work

Women's needs and aspirations with regard to employment and training

Women employees organizing

Conclusion

Notes

References

9. Information technology, gender and employment

(introduction...)

Introduction

Education and training

TELMAL: Gender and office employment

Computerization in TELMAL

Conclusion

Notes

References

10. Women in software programming

(introduction...)

Introduction

Software as a technology and its production process

The software and computer services sector

An analysis of patterns of women's employment in software activities

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

References

11. Something old, something new, something borrowed . . . the electronics industry in Calcutta

(introduction...)

Introduction

The consumer electronics sector

Electronics components production

The soft ware industry

Conclusion

Notes

References

12. Women and information technology in Sub-Saharan Africa

(introduction...)

Introduction

Research method

Current status of information technology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Overall status of women in Africa

Women and information technology

Conclusion

Notes

References

13. Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing

(introduction...)

International trends in information processing employment

Reconstructing women as 'cheap' labour: New technology employment or the same old story?

Health hazards of work with computers and keyboards: The experience from Australia and Europe

The relationship between RSI and technology in the workplace

LDC experience

Learning from international experience

Notes

References

14. Using information technology as a mobilizing force

(introduction...)

Historical background

Information technology and TAMWA

Technology and the media

Conclusion: TAMWA and information technology

References

15. The fading of the collective dream?

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Appendix - Yorkshire and Humberside regional socialist feminist conference, 3 November, 1979, 'Women and new technology'

Notes

References

Afterword

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