Title: Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana /
Authors: Smith, Beatrice Quarshie, 1958-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on Ghana.; Offshore outsourcing Ghana.; Information technology Economic aspects Ghana.; Globalization Economic aspects Ghana.
Contents: Part 1. Preface and background -- Preface: Gender, biography, and the researcher: locating the "self" in the study of "new" workspaces -- Gender and globalizing processes -- The ethnographic context: Ghana fifty-five years after independence -- Part 2. Gender in the globalization debate -- Gender politics and women in Ghana: a short "herstory" -- Gender, knowledge and "new" work -- Part 3. Research practices -- Multi-sited ethnography and hybrid spaces -- Part 4. Literacy practices in the "new" workspaces of the global South -- Outsourcing as "glocalization:" material practices and fluid workspaces -- Literacies of outsourcing: "scapes" and "flows" of "new" work -- Part 5. Conclusion -- new workplace practices for new times -- The "new" world of work: women and workplace literacy practice -- a social practice perspective.