Shaping Women's Work

An innovative book offering a broad overview of the debates about technology and gender relations at work in a range of occupational settings. It looks at the ways gender relations influence the design and development of technologies and how gender relations themselves are shaped by technology.

Juliet Webster

- Series Editor's Preface - Acknowledgements - The Terrain of this Book - Perspectives on Women's Work and Technology - Gender Relations in the Shaping of Technologies - Information and Communication Technologies and the Shaping of Women's Employment - Secretaries and Seamstresses, Clerks and Cashiers - Information Technologies and Women's Labour Processes - Women in Systems Design - Values, Methods and Artefacts - The Lessons of Feminist Research on Women's Work and IT Reference Index