Silicon valley, women, and the California dream : gender, class, and opportunity in the twentieth century / Glenna Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Glenna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women computer industry employees--California--Santa Clara Valley.

Women computer industry employees.

California.

Physical Description:

xvii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

What accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor unions declined in their influence? This book examines these questions from a fresh perspective: that provided by the history of women in Silicon Valley in the twentieth century.

Contents:

1. The Fruited Valley 13

2. The Fruit Industry Workforce at High Tide: A Wave of Militancy Hits the Valley 48

3. War and Cold War Shape the Valley: The Birth of a Metropolis and the Death of Union Democracy 81

4. Toward Silicon Valley 112

5. New Immigrants and Silicon Valley: Struggles, Successes, and Transformations 147

6. The Valley as "Feminist Capital of the Nation" 183

7. The Global Economy on the Home Front: A Tale of Two Valleys 226.

Notes:

Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, Stanford University, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0804741549

0804747962

OCLC:

49421603