Computing Myths, Class Realities
An Ethnography Of Technology And Working People In Sheffield, England
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 1993
Book
Hardback
251 pages
978-0-8133-8135-0 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-8135-0 (9780813381350)
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David J. Hakken | Barbara Andrews
Computing Myths, Class Realities
An Ethnography Of Technology And Working People In Sheffield, England
Book
06/1994
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
€57.13
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Content
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.