Full Description
Three themes are drawn together in this book: gender and sexuality, the organisation of work, and the impact of technological change. Their inter-relationship is explored in six area studies: manufacturing, banking, retailing, computing, nursing and housework.
Gender at Work presents an account of how each area has changed since the Second World War; sets out ways in which the notion of what constitutes 'proper' work for men and women changes with new work processes; and analyses the prospects for, and limits of, sexual 'equality' in the workplace.
Based on the first-hand observations of workers, reflecting on their work experience, this book allows workers to speak for themselves: they reveal the centrality of gender to the way capitalism is organised.
Contents
Foreword by Edna Ryan
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Masculinity and machines: automation in manufacturing industry
2 Kentucky-fried money: the banks
3 Working at a discount: retailing
4 Roaming around computer-land: sex-typing in a new industry
5 Sex and power in hospitals: the division of labour in the 'health' industry
6 The labour process of consumption: housework
A new feminist politics
Bibliography
Index
