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BL
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972403
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b726773
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| Title & Author
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Women encounter technology : : changing patterns of employment in the Third World /\ edited by Swasti Mitter and Sheila Rowbotham.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2003.
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| Series Statement
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UNU/INTECH studies in new technology and development,; 1
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1 online resource (xviii, 356 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0203208617
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: 0415126878
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: 9780203208618
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: 9780415126878
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| Notes
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"Published in association with the UNU Press."
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Originally published 1995 by Routledge.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Beyond the politics of difference: an introduction / Swasti Mitter -- Information technology and working women's demands / Swasti Mitter -- Feminist approaches to technology: women's values or a gender lens? / Sheila Rowbotham -- Conflicting demands of new technology and household work: women's work in Brazilian and Argentinian textiles / Liliana Acero -- Changes in textiles: implications for Asian women / Pavla Jezkova -- Information technology and women's employment in manufacturing in Eastern Europe: the case of Slovenia / Maja Bučar -- Restructuring and retraining: the Canadian garment industry in transition / Charlene Gannagé -- Computerization and women's employment in India's banking sector / Sujata Gothoskar -- Information technology, gender and employment: a case study of the telecommunications industry in Malaysia / Cecilia Ng Choon Sim and Carol Yong -- Women in software programming: the experience of Brazil / Fatima Janine Gaio -- Something old, something new, something borrowed: the electronics industry in Calcutta / Nirmala Banerjee -- Women and information technology in sub-Saharan Africa: a topic for discussion? / Mayuri Odedra-Straub -- Gender perspectives on health and safety in information processing: learning from international experience / Ruth Pearson -- Using information technology as a mobilizing force: the case of The Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) / Fatma Alloo -- The fading of the collective dream? Reflections on twenty years' research on information technology and women's employment / Ursula Huws.
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| Subject
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Information technology-- Developing countries.
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Women-- Employment-- Effect of technological innovations on-- Developing countries.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Labor.
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Information technology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor Industrial Relations.
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Women-- Employment-- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Países subdesarrollados, Información, Tecnología.
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Developing countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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331.4/09172/4
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HD6223.W654 2003eb
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| Added Entry
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Mitter, Swasti,1939-2016.
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Rowbotham, Sheila.
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