Case studies and policy perspectives : technology and women's employment / Heidi I. Hartmann, Robert E. Kraut, and Louise A. Tilly, editors ; Panel on Technology and Women's Employment, Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues. Panel on Technology and Women's Employment.

Contributor:

Hartmann, Heidi I.

Kraut, Robert E.

Tilly, Louise.

Series:

Computer chips and paper clips ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microelectronics--Social aspects.

Microelectronics.

Office practice--Automation.

Office practice.

Women white collar workers--Effect of technological innovations on.

Women white collar workers.

Women--Employment--Government policy--United States.

Women.

Women--Employment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This companion to Volume I presents individually authored papers covering the history, economics, and sociology of women's work and the computer revolution. Topics include the implications for equal employment opportunity in light of new technologies; a case study of the insurance industry and of women in computer-related occupations; a study of temporary, part-time, and at-home employment; and education and retraining opportunities.

Contents:

""Computer Chips and Paper Clips""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""CONTENTS, VOLUME I""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PART I OVERVIEW""; ""Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives""; ""THE CHANGING ROLE OF AMERICAN WOMEN""; ""OBSERVATIONS ON CHANGING TECHNOLOGY""; ""POLICY PERSPECTIVES""; ""Framing the Issues""; ""Are Women Workers at Risk?""; ""Banking and Finance""; ""Hospitals and Health Care""; ""POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Full Employment""; ""Continued R&D""; ""Strengthened Education and Retraining""; ""A National Jobs and Education Program""

""Continued EEO Enforcement""""Child Care""; ""A CONCLUDING NOTE""; ""References""; ""PART II CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN WORKERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY""; ""The Technological Transformation of White-Collar Work: A Case Study of the Insurance Industry""; ""THE PACE OF DIFFUSION AND THE NEW IMPLEMENTATIONS""; ""Underwriting and Claims Support Systems""; ""Administrative/Clerical, Decision Support, and Agency Systems""; ""EFFECTS OF AUTOMATION ON THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF THE WORK FORCE""; ""CHANGES IN THE NATURE OF WORK: THE VIEW FROM THE SHOP FLOOR""; ""WOMEN AND MINORITY WORKERS""

""Effects of Automation on the Female Work Force""""Effects of Automation on Minority Workers""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""References""; """"Machines Instead of Clerks"": Technology and the Feminization of Bookkeeping, 1910-1950""; ""SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT, THE COST ACCOUNTING REVOLUTION, AND THE ACCOUNTANT""; ""OFFICE MACHINES AND THEIR HISTORY""; ""MECHANIZATION, FEMINIZATION, AND SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT""; ""WOMEN OFFICE WORKERS: HOW MANY IN WHAT JOBS?""; ""STRATIFICATION IN THE OFFICE""; ""Marital Status, Class, and Race and Ethnicity""; ""Wages and Clerical Work""; ""References""

""New Technology and Office Tradition: The Not-So-Changing World of the Secretary""""THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE SECRETARY""; ""PATRIMONY IN TRADITIONAL SECRETARIAL WORK""; ""Traditional Secretarial Tasks""; ""Rewards and Career Mobility""; ""CHANGES IN THE SUPPLY OF WOMEN TO SECRETARIAL JOBS: RISING EXPECTATIONS AND DECLINING SATISFACTION""; ""THE NEW OFFICE ENVIRONMENT""; ""Word Processing: The Core Technology""; ""Secretarial Sharing and Minipools: New Staffing Ratios in the Automated Office""; ""The Shared Secretary""; ""The Minipool Secretary""

""THE PERSISTENCE OF PATRIMONY IN THE NEW OFFICE""""The New Tasks""; ""Career Opportunities""; ""Compensation and Skills""; ""Wages and Upskilling""; ""Other Variables Affecting Change""; ""Office Size""; ""Industrial Variation""; ""Resources and Wealth of Office""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""References""; ""Integrated Circuits/Segregated Labor: Women in Computer-Related Occupations and High-Tech Industries""; ""COMPUTER-RELATED OCCUPATIONS""; ""Descriptions of Occupations""; ""Engineers""; ""Computer Specialists""; ""Engineering and Science Technicians""; ""Computer Operators""

""Data-Entry Operators""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610221431

9781280221439

1280221437

9780309554985

0309554985

9780585261553

0585261555

OCLC:

923267697