Reading and writing in the global workplace
Subtitle: gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana
By: Beatrice Quarshie Smith
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780739137840; 9780739137864
Subjects: Globalization; Offshore outsourcing; Effect of technological innovations on; Employment; Information technology; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Preface and background; title: Preface: Gender, biography, and the researcher: locating the "self" in the study of "new" workspaces; title: Gender and globalizing processes; title: The ethnographic context: Ghana fifty-five years after independence; title: Part 2. Gender in the globalization debate; title: Gender politics and women in Ghana: a short "herstory"; title: Gender, knowledge and "new" work; title: Part 3. Research practices; title: Multi-sited ethnography and hybrid spaces; title: Part 4. Literacy practices in the "new" workspaces of the global South; title: Outsourcing as "glocalization:" material practices and fluid workspaces; title: Literacies of outsourcing: "scapes" and "flows" of "new" work; title: Part 5. Conclusion; title: new workplace practices for new times; title: The "new" world of work: women and workplace literacy practice; title: a social practice perspective.