Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment.

Abstract

1 Front Matter 2 I. Overview Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives 3 II. Case Studies of Women Workers and Information Technology The Technological Transformation of White-Collar Work: A Case Study of the Insurance Industry 4 Machines Instead of Clerks: Technology and the Feminization of Bookkeeping, 1910-1950 5 New Technology and Office Tradition: The Not-So-Changing World of the Secretary 6 Integrated Circuits/Segregated Labor: Women in Computer-Related Occupations and High-Tech Industries 7 III. Technology and Trends in Women Women 8 Recent Trends in Clerical Employment: The Impact of Technological Change 9 Restructuring Work: Temporary, Part-Time, and At-Home Employment 10 IV. Policy Perspectives Employer Policies to Enhance the Application of Office System Technology to Clerical Work 11 New Office and Business Technolgies: The Structure of Education and (Re)Training Opportunities 12 The New Technology and the New Economy: Some Implications for Equal Employment Opportunity 13 Managing Technological Change: Responses of Government, Employers, and Trade Unions in Western Europe and Canada 14 Biographical Sketches of Contributors