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Freeman, Carla S.

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High-tech and high heels in the global economy: The off-shore information industry in Barbados.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	High-tech and high heels in the global economy: The off-shore information industry in Barbados./
Author:	Freeman, Carla S.
Description:	288 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section: A, page: 3789.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-10A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9408772

High-tech and high heels in the global economy: The off-shore information industry in Barbados.
Freeman, Carla S.

High-tech and high heels in the global economy: The off-shore information industry in Barbados. - 288 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section: A, page: 3789.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 1993.

The last five years have witnessed a rapid expansion of the off-shore sector into the arena of information-based industries, and Barbados has become an international show-case for countries considering informatics as part of a new development strategy. They mark not only the fragmentation and restructuring of office work and computer-based activity such that white collar and clerical jobs can now be processed in regions far removed from metropolitan head offices, but also the mobilization of new, largely female, "pink collar" work forces. Corporate managers and development officers call these enterprises "open offices," hailing the high-tech air-conditioned working environments, while labor critics prefer the term "electronic sweatshops" to describe their thinly disguised factory form. This computer-based service industry represents a new twist in the global assembly line model of the electronics and garment industries in the Caribbean and across the developing world. Despite obvious parallels and the official placement of information processing under the manufacturing umbrella, the specific management policies and measures of discipline that characterize these operations and the labor practices they employ set them apart from the traditional off-shore manufacturing plant. They represent, however, the latest vision by a number of countries for both the creation of jobs as well as the promotion of computer-based technological transfer and development.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

High-tech and high heels in the global economy: The off-shore information industry in Barbados.
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520 $a The study focuses predominantly on the largest foreign-owned data entry operations in Barbados. Using a combination of methodological approaches (i.e., open-ended interviews, a survey, and participant observation), it explores the significance of this new industry from three perspectives: global economic trends and the spread of export-led industrialization into the computer-centered service sector, the local context of Barbadian economic restructuring, and the lives of the women who perform these jobs and juggle this employment with domestic responsibilities and other informal sector work. These three levels of analysis help to further our understanding of the ways in which multinational corporations confront particular cultural contexts, create new styles and work practices in the lives of women, and at the same time reformulate their own notions of ideal work forces and labor processes in a global arena.
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