1st Edition
Pleasure, Power and Technology Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace
By Sally Hacker
Copyright 1989
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In this book, first published in 1989, Sally Hacker explores the answers to these and other provocative questions about our attitudes toward work and leisure. Drawing from her broad experience as a... Read more
Part 1. Gender, Technology and Work: Thought and Action 1. Tools of Pleasure and Power 2. Research, Action and Theoretical Perspectives 3. Discipline and Pleasure in Engineering 4. Military Institutions and Gender Inequality Part 2. Mondragon: Gender, Technology and Power in Cooperative Workplaces 5. Cooperativism: Principles and Practice 6. Women Workers in the Mondragon System of Producer Cooperatives 7. Gender and Technology in the Mondragon System 8. Conclusion Stories
Biography
Sally Hacker
