TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Beatrice Quarshie
TI  - Reading and writing in the global workplace: gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana 
SN  - 9780739137864
AV  - HD6218.3 
U1  - 331.48165109667 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Women
KW  - Employment
KW  - Effect of technological innovations on
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Offshore outsourcing
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Travail
KW  - Effets des innovations sur
KW  - Ghāna
KW  - Impartition à l'étranger
KW  - Technologie de l'information
KW  - Aspect économique
KW  - Mondialisation
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index; 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
N2  - Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smith explores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of different socio-economic forces, conducting a comparative study of two distinctly different workplaces to reveal significant insights about problems of organizational hierarchy and management-employee relations in the cross-cultural environments of out-sourced business and IT process work
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