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Description

1. 245 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "Secretaries, administrative assistants, clerks, word-processors and telemarketers make up a sector of the working world whose voice is rarely heard. In this timely and insightful investigative analysis, Ann Eyerman places these women front and centre. She brings to our attention just how important office work is to the functioning of our economy and how restructuring under the global economy is causing dramatic shifts in the office environment. Is a full-time job a thing of the past? How is downsizing affecting women working in insurance, banking, law and education? Are the new technologies making their lives easier or have they created greater responsibilities, longer hours and higher stress levels? ... She uncovers the strategies women are developing to preserve their working culture, their sense of self and their economic well-being in a time of global change."--Pub. website

Subject

1. Women white collar workers
2. Women > Employment
3. Working class women
4. Women, Working
5. white collar workers
6. workers
7. working class
8. Working class women
9. Women > Employment
10. Women white collar workers
11. women workers
12. office worker
13. quality of working life
14. work attitude
15. working conditions
16. technological change
17. occupational health
18. stress
19. human relations
20. work at home
21. return to work
22. temporary employment
23. vocational training
24. occupational organization
25. travailleuses
26. employé de bureau
27. qualité de la vie de travail
28. attitude à l'égard du travail
29. conditions de travail
30. changement technologique
31. santé au travail
32. relations humaines
33. travail à domicile
34. réinsertion professionnelle
35. emploi temporaire
36. formation professionnelle
37. organisation professionnelle
38. trabajadoras
39. empleado de oficina
40. calidad de la vida de trabajo
41. actitud hacia el trabajo
42. condiciones de trabajo
43. cambio tecnológico
44. salud en el trabajo
45. estrés
46. relaciones humanas
47. trabajo a domicilio
48. reinserción profesional
49. empleo temporal
50. formación profesional
51. organización profesional
52. Canada
53. Canadá

Contents

1. Desperately seeking survival : women office workers face their restructured workplaces -- 1. But can she type? But does it matter? : effects of the technological revolution -- 2. Restructuring the office, remodelling the worker -- 3. Good jobs, bad jobs, flex jobs, no jobs -- 4. Sick and tired from it all -- 5. The office workers' future : trying to turn it around.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index.