Title High tech and high heels in the global economy : women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean / Carla Freeman

Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 334 pages) : illustrations, maps Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents Introduction -- 2 Pink-Collar Bajans: Working Class through Gender and Culture on the Global AssemblyLine -- 3 Localizing Informatics: Situating Women and Work in Barbados -- 4 Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs: Local Profilesof Global Workers -- 5 Inside Multitext and Data Air: Discipline and Agency in the "Open Office" -- 6 Fashioning Femininity and "Professional" Identities: Producing and Consuming Across Formal and Informal Sectors -- 7 Epilogue Summary The lives of women workers in Barbados, who perform high tech jobs out-sourced by U.S. corporations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-322) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Women electronic data processing personnel -- Caribbean Area Women offshore assembly industry workers -- Caribbean Area SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Women electronic data processing personnel Women offshore assembly industry workers Elektronikindustrie Beschäftigung Frau Informatieindustrie. Vrouwenberoepen. Sociale identiteit. Internationalisatie. Caribbean Area Karibik Form Electronic book LC no. 99025937 ISBN 0822380293 9780822380290 1283061880 9781283061889 9786613061881 6613061883 0822324032 9780822324034

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