Carla Freeman

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy

Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Freeman helps us understand how new forms of labor power are being tapped in old places. This is a penetrating demonstration of the genuine relevance of anthropology to the modern world. It also shows us in what ways change and persistence are subtly interwoven, in a world that is not quite so new as others tell us."--Sidney Mintz, Johns Hopkins University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 156mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324393
• ISBN-10: 0822324393
• Artikelnr.: 22197959

Autorenporträt

Carla Freeman is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables, maps, and figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. Introduction 1
2. Pink-Collar Bajans: Working Class through Gender and Culture on the
Global Assembly Line 21
3. Localizing Informatics: Situating Women and Work in Barbados 66
4. Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs: Local Profiles of Global Workers
102
5. Inside Multitext and Data Air: Discipline and Agency in the "Open
Office" 140
6. Fashioning Femininity and "Professional" Identities: Producing and
Consuming Across Formal and Informal Sectors 213
7. Epilogue 253
Notes 263
Bibliography 293
Index 323