Women's social status, womens rights, international division of labour, capitalist country, socialist country, developing country - womens organization, trends, historical, USA and Western Europe, cultural factors, political aspects, woman workers, capitalism, feudalism, sexual …
Using data from the 1 per cent and 2 per cent Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) from the 1991 British Census, identifies several changes in the UK labour market including: a distinctive, new category of integrated occupations, employing men and women equally in highly qualifi…
"Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research--whic…
Presents an analysis of social media, discussing how a technology which was once heralded as democratic, has evolved into one which promotes elitism and inequality and provides companies with the means of invading privacy in search of profits.
Presents an analysis of social media, discussing how a technology which was once heralded as democratic, has evolved into one which promotes elitism and inequality and provides companies with the means of invading privacy in search of profits. "Social media technologies such as…
Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightfulbook, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research--which …
Discusses the role of gender in social research in the field, focusing on the researcher's experience of his or her own gender and that of the respondent.
Field study of living conditions and social roles of rural women, sex discrimination and social change in two rural communitys of Peru - analyses women's subordination; looks at traditional culture, childbirth, marriage and family life; examines the sexual division of labour, so…
Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender, disability and sexuality together, has existed for over a decade as a theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as looking at other…
Intersectionality, the attempt to bring theories on race, gender, disability and sexuality together, has existed for over a decade as a theoretical framework. The essays in this volume explore how intersectionality can be applied to modern philosophy, as well as looking at other…
"A group of multidisciplinary and international researchers and scholars deliver their summary and analysis of current research and their views on how gender and work intersect along a variety of societal, economic, interpersonal, and organizational paradigms."--Jacket.
