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9780309036887
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Computer Chips and Paper Clips -- Copyright -- Contents -- Volume II: Case Studies and Policy Perspectives -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Technological Change and Women Workers in the Office -- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE -- Information Technologies -- Computers -- Data-Entry Technologies -- Storage and Processing -- Output and Display Technologies -- System Compatibility and Interconnection -- Telecommunications -- Social Context of Technological Change -- Output and Employment: Trends and Interpretations -- Output Measures -- Employment Effects -- Employment Levels -- Employment Quality -- WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT -- Overview -- Why Technology May Affect Women Differentially -- Job Segregation -- Clerical Occupations -- Differential Status and Access to on-the-Job Training -- Differential Responsibility for Family Care -- Conclusion -- 2 Historical Patterns of Technological Change -- THE TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS -- WORKERS IN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING -- THE AUTOMATED OFFICE AND ITS WORKERS -- Secretaries -- Accountants and Bookkeepers -- Insurance Clerks -- Bank Tellers -- RETAIL CLERKS -- NURSING AND NURSES -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3 Effects of Technological Change: Employment Levels and Occupational Shifts -- PROBLEMS IN EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS -- Underlying Factors -- Data Problems -- THE SUPPLY OF WOMEN WORKERS -- Labor Force Participation Rates -- Projections of Labor Force Participation Rates -- Projections of Age-Specific Rates -- Other Features of Women's Labor Force Participation -- Educational Attainment of the Labor Force -- THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE -- The Influence of Labor Supply -- The Demand for Workers -- Unemployment -- RECENT TRENDS IN CLERICAL EMPLOYMENT -- Overall Growth -- Occupational Shifts within Clerical Work -- Demographic Trends in Clerical Employment -- Sources of Change in Clerical Work.
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""Computer Chips and Paper Clips""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Volume II: Case Studies and Policy Perspectives""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Technological Change and Women Workers in the Office ""; ""TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE""; ""Information Technologies""; ""Computers""; ""Data-Entry Technologies""; ""Storage and Processing""; ""Output and Display Technologies""; ""System Compatibility and Interconnection""; ""Telecommunications""; ""Social Context of Technological Change""; ""Output and Employment: Trends and Interpretations""; ""Output Measures""; ""Employment Effects""
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""Employment Levels""""Employment Quality""; ""WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT""; ""Overview""; ""Why Technology May Affect Women Differentially""; ""Job Segregation""; ""Clerical Occupations""; ""Differential Status and Access to on-the-Job Training""; ""Differential Responsibility for Family Care""; ""Conclusion""; ""2 Historical Patterns of Technological Change ""; ""THE TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE OPERATORS""; ""WORKERS IN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING""; ""THE AUTOMATED OFFICE AND ITS WORKERS""; ""Secretaries""; ""Accountants and Bookkeepers""; ""Insurance Clerks""; ""Bank Tellers""; ""RETAIL CLERKS""
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""NURSING AND NURSES""""CONCLUSIONS""; ""3 Effects of Technological Change: Employment Levels and Occupational Shifts ""; ""PROBLEMS IN EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIONS""; ""Underlying Factors""; ""Data Problems""; ""THE SUPPLY OF WOMEN WORKERS""; ""Labor Force Participation Rates""; ""Projections of Labor Force Participation Rates""; ""Projections of Age-Specific Rates""; ""Other Features of Women's Labor Force Participation""; ""Educational Attainment of the Labor Force""; ""THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE""; ""The Influence of Labor Supply""; ""The Demand for Workers""
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""Unemployment""""RECENT TRENDS IN CLERICAL EMPLOYMENT""; ""Overall Growth""; ""Occupational Shifts within Clerical Work""; ""Demographic Trends in Clerical Employment""; ""Sources of Change in Clerical Work""; ""OUTLOOK FOR CLERICAL EMPLOYMENT""; ""Overall Growth""; ""Occupational Shifts""; ""Job Loss and Displaced Workers""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""4 Effects of Technological Change: The Quality of Employment ""; ""EMPLOYMENT QUALITY""; ""Defining Employment Quality""; ""Workers' Satisfaction and Attitudes""; ""Job Content: Job Fragmentation and the Deskilling Debate""; ""Stages of Technology""
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""Levels of Analysis""""Conclusion""; ""Working Conditions""; ""Monitoring and Work Pacing""; ""Telecommuting and the Electronic Distribution of Work""; ""Ergonomics: The Fit Between People and Technology""; ""Economic Considerations""; ""Conclusion""; ""IMPLEMENTING TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND IMPROVING EMPLOYMENT QUALITY""; ""The Role of Managers""; ""The Dominance of Management""; ""Women's Influence""; ""The Role of Enlightened Management""; ""Constraints on Managers""; ""Economic Conditions""; ""Organizational Culture and Behavior""; ""Technological Constraints""
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""Constituent Conflicts and Value Contradictions""
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780309036887
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Computer Chips and Paper Clips : Technology and Women's Employment, Volume I
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