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Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues. Panel on Technology and Women's Employment.

Title Computer chips and paper clips. Volume 1 : technology and women's employment / Heidi I. Hartmann, Robert E. Kraut, and Louise A. Tilly, editors ; Panel on Technology and Women's Employment, Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 216 pages) : illustrations
Contents Computer Chips and Paper Clips -- Copyright -- Contents -- Volume II: Case Studies and Policy Perspectives -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Technological Change and Women Workers in the Office -- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE -- Information Technologies -- Computers -- Data-Entry Technologies -- Storage and Processing -- Output and Display Technologies -- System Compatibility and Interconnection -- Telecommunications -- Social Context of Technological Change -- Output and Employment: Trends and Interpretations -- Output Measures -- Employment Effects
Employment LevelsEmployment Quality -- WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT -- Overview -- Why Technology May Affect Women Differentially -- Job Segregation -- Clerical Occupations -- Differential Status and Access to on-the-Job Training -- Differential Responsibility for Family Care -- Conclusion -- 2 Historical Patterns of Technological Change -- THE TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS -- WORKERS IN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING -- THE AUTOMATED OFFICE AND ITS WORKERS -- Secretaries -- Accountants and Bookkeepers -- Insurance Clerks -- Bank Tellers -- RETAIL CLERKS
NURSING AND NURSESCONCLUSIONS -- 3 Effects of Technological Change: Employment Levels and Occupational Shifts -- PROBLEMS IN EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS -- Underlying Factors -- Data Problems -- THE SUPPLY OF WOMEN WORKERS -- Labor Force Participation Rates -- Projections of Labor Force Participation Rates -- Projections of Age-Specific Rates -- Other Features of Women's Labor Force Participation -- Educational Attainment of the Labor Force -- THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE -- The Influence of Labor Supply -- The Demand for Workers
UnemploymentRECENT TRENDS IN CLERICAL EMPLOYMENT -- Overall Growth -- Occupational Shifts within Clerical Work -- Demographic Trends in Clerical Employment -- Sources of Change in Clerical Work -- OUTLOOK FOR CLERICAL EMPLOYMENT -- Overall Growth -- Occupational Shifts -- Job Loss and Displaced Workers -- CONCLUSION -- 4 Effects of Technological Change: The Quality of Employment -- EMPLOYMENT QUALITY -- Defining Employment Quality -- Workers' Satisfaction and Attitudes -- Job Content: Job Fragmentation and the Deskilling Debate -- Stages of Technology
Levels of AnalysisConclusion -- Working Conditions -- Monitoring and Work Pacing -- Telecommuting and the Electronic Distribution of Work -- Ergonomics: The Fit Between People and Technology -- Economic Considerations -- Conclusion -- IMPLEMENTING TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND IMPROVING EMPLOYMENT QUALITY -- The Role of Managers -- The Dominance of Management -- Women's Influence -- The Role of Enlightened Management -- Constraints on Managers -- Economic Conditions -- Organizational Culture and Behavior -- Technological Constraints
Analysis Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women white collar workers -- Effect of technological innovations on
Office practice -- Automation.
Microelectronics -- Social aspects
Women -- Employment.
Women -- Employment -- Government policy -- United States
Office Automation
Microelectronics -- Social aspects
Office practice -- Automation
Women -- Employment
Women -- Employment -- Government policy
Women white collar workers -- Effect of technological innovations on
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Hartmann, Heidi I
Kraut, Robert E
Tilly, Louise
LC no. 86018113
ISBN 9780309036887
0309036887
9780309594622
0309594626
1280221828
9781280221828
9786610221820
6610221820
0585168350
9780585168357