Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana
Beatrice Quarshie Smith
| Year of publication: |
2012
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| Authors: | Smith, Beatrice Quarshie |
| Publisher: |
Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Lexington Books |
| Subject: | Weibliche Arbeitskräfte | Women workers | Bildungsniveau | Educational achievement | Datenverarbeitung | Data processing | Outsourcing | Globalisierung | Globalization | Arbeitsbedingungen | Working conditions | Arbeitsbeziehungen | Employment relations | Ghana | Frau | Informationstechnik |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [bvbr.bib-bvb.de] |
| Extent: | XXI, 207 S. |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Part 1. Preface and background -- Preface: Gender, biography, and the researcher: locating the "self" in the study of "new" workspaces -- Gender and globalizing processes -- The ethnographic context: Ghana fifty-five years after independence -- Part 2. Gender in the globalization debate -- Gender politics and women in Ghana: a short "herstory" -- Gender, knowledge and "new" work -- Part 3. Research practices -- Multi-sited ethnography and hybrid spaces -- Part 4. Literacy practices in the "new" workspaces of the global South -- Outsourcing as "glocalization:" material practices and fluid workspaces -- Literacies of outsourcing: "scapes" and "flows" of "new" work -- Part 5. Conclusion--new workplace practices for new times -- The "new" world of work: women and workplace literacy practice--a social practice perspective. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7391-3786-4 ; 0-7391-3784-0 ; 978-0-7391-3784-0 ; 978-0-7391-3786-4 |
| Classification: | Geschlechter und ihr Verhalten |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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