Computing myths, class realities : an ethnography of technology and working people in Sheffield, England
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Computing myths, class realities : an ethnography of technology and working people in Sheffield, England
（Conflict and social change series / series editors, Scott Whiteford and William Derman）
Westview Press, 1993
- : hard
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 241-250
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the effect of new information technologies on a traditional working-class society in the north of England. Focusing on the complex interplay between technology and society's ideas on work and labour, the authors examine how these impulses are expressed in the computer-related jobs of the service and manufacturing sectors. The people of Sheffield offer an opportunity to understand the processes of modernization and change in the integration of society and technology affecting us all. The book is intended for anthropologists and sociologists, and all scholars interested in the effect of computers on our lives.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Studying computerization: why study computerization?
- studying computing ethnographically in South Yorkshire
- the methods used to study computing in Sheffield. Part 2 Describing computerization: computerization of work
- computing and jobs
- computerization and the reproduction of symbols. Part 3 Analyzing computing structurally: theorizing computerization
- the national State and computerization
- Sheffield computerization and world political economy
- computerization and the region. Part 4 Making computerization: culture-centred computing and local policy
- computing and gender
- class, culture, computing and politics.
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