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Author Probert, Belinda.

Title Pink collar blues : work, gender & technology / edited by Belinda Probert, Bruce W. Wilson
Published [Carlton, Vic.] : Melbourne University Press ; [Portland, Or.] : [Distributor U.S.A. and Canada, International Specialized Book Services], 1993

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Description xiii, 173 pages ; 22 cm
Contents 1. Gendered work / Belinda Probert and Bruce W. Wilson -- 2. The masculine mystique: a feminist analysis of science and technology / Judy Wajcman --3. Women's skills and word processors: gender issues in the development of the automated office / Juliet Webster -- 4. New technology and work organisation: the role of gender relations / Eileen Appelbaum -- 5. Naming women's workplace skills: linguistics and power / Cate Poynton -- 6. Human-centred systems, gender and computer supported co-operative work / Mike Hales --7. Gender, unions and the new workplace: realising the promise? / Miriam Henry and Suzanne Franzway
Analysis Computer users
Overseas item
Sex role
Technological change
Tradespeople
White collar workers
Women
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 154-170
Subject Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Australia.
Labor unions.
Office practice -- Automation -- Social aspects.
Sex role in the work environment.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
Women -- Employment -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Women -- Employment -- Australia.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Author Probert, Belinda.
Wilson, Bruce, 1951-
LC no. 94107811
ISBN 0522845207
Other Titles Pink collar blues : work, gender and technology