Gender at Work
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Book Overview
Three themes are drawn together in this book: gender and sexuality, the organisation of work, and the impact of technological change. Their inter-relationship is explored in six area studies: manufacturing, banking, retailing, computing, nursing and housework. Gender at Work presents an account of how each area has changed since the Second World War; sets out ways in which the notion of what constitutes 'proper' work for men and women changes with new work processes; and analyses the prospects for, and limits of, sexual 'equality' in the workplace. Based on the first-hand observations of workers, reflecting on their work experience, this book allows workers to speak for themselves: they reveal the centrality of gender to the way capitalism is organised.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0868612618
ISBN13:9780868612614
Release Date:April 1983
Publisher:Routledge
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.42 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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An Australian view
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Gives an Australian slant on various professions and the extent to which they have stereotypical associations with a given sex. Plus the impact of this on the wages and career paths of those in the professions.The authors focus on the effect of technological change on several professions. It should be said that "professions" in this book does not mean upscale white collar jobs. Instead, here, they tend to be in blue collar manufacturing and retail. Given this, the authors also look at trade unions within these professions and how they have outreached to women since World War 2. As a side note, the descriptions of computing seem so outdated. They wrote the book in 1983, before the rise of personal computers. The computers and tasks associated with them that the book discusses are archiac, yet even then, their effects were shown to ripple through the professions.
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