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High tech and high heels in the global economy : women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean / Carla Freeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, Carla.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women electronic data processing personnel--Caribbean Area.
- Women electronic data processing personnel.
- Women offshore assembly industry workers--Caribbean Area.
- Women offshore assembly industry workers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2000]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The lives of women workers in Barbados, who perform high tech jobs out-sourced by U.S. corporations.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 2 Pink-Collar Bajans: Working Class through Gender and Culture on the Global AssemblyLine
- 3 Localizing Informatics: Situating Women and Work in Barbados
- 4 Myths of Docile Girls and Matriarchs: Local Profilesof Global Workers
- 5 Inside Multitext and Data Air: Discipline and Agency in the "Open Office"
- 6 Fashioning Femininity and "Professional" Identities: Producing and Consuming Across Formal and Informal Sectors
- 7 Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-322) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 25, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9786613061881
- 9781283061889
- 1283061880
- 9780822380290
- 0822380293
- OCLC:
- 191222230
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