Pleasure, power, and technology : some tales of gender, engineering, and the cooperative workplace
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Bibliographic Information
Pleasure, power, and technology : some tales of gender, engineering, and the cooperative workplace
(Perspectives on gender, v. 1)
Unwin Hyman, 1989
- pbk.
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 160-182
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study explores the links between feminism, co-operatism and technology. The author reflects on the development of the women's movement, the co-operative movement and the attitudes toward technology within both. It includes a case study of the Mondragon co-operatives and the role of women in them. Also included are theoretical reflections on the potential for a feminist co-operative movement in the USA.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Gender, technology and work - thought and action: tools of power and pleasure
- research, action and theoretical perspectives
- discipline and pleasure in engineering
- military institutions and gender inequality. Part 2 Mondragon - gender, technology and power in co-operative workplaces: co-operativism
- women workers in the Mondragon system of producer co-operatives
- gender and technology in the Mondragon system
- conclusion stories.
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