UID:
almafu_9959677654002883
Format:
1 online resource (351 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06188-0
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9786613061881
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0-8223-8029-3
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
The lives of women workers in Barbados, who perform high tech jobs out-sourced by U.S. corporations.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-2439-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-2403-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
,
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9780822380290
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822380290?locatt=mode:legacy
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