Rosemary Pringle

Gender at Work (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gender at Work presents an account of how six fields of work have changed since WWII with regard to the inter-related themes of gender and sexuality, the organisation of work, and the impact of technological change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000257229
• Artikelnr.: 59890880

Autorenporträt

ANN GAME teaches sociology at the University of New South Wales. ROSEMARY PRINGLE teaches sociology at Macquarie University. Both are active in the women's movement and have worked closely with trade unions on the impact of technological change and on the position of women in the workforce. They have written extensively on aspects of feminism, sociology and the labour process.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Edna Ryan
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Masculinity and machines: automation in manufacturing industry
2 Kentucky-fried money: the banks
3 Working at a discount: retailing
4 Roaming around computer-land: sex-typing in a new industry
5 Sex and power in hospitals: the division of labour in the 'health'
industry
6 The labour process of consumption: housework
A new feminist politics
Bibliography
Index