Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / Beatrice Quarshie Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 207 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780739137864
- 0739137867
- 1283548801
- 9781283548809
- 9786613861252
- 6613861251
- Women -- Employment -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Ghana
- Offshore outsourcing -- Ghana
- Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Ghana
- Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Ghana
- Femmes -- Travail -- Effets des innovations sur -- Ghāna
- Impartition à l'étranger -- Ghāna
- Technologie de l'information -- Aspect économique -- Ghāna
- Mondialisation -- Ghāna
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Globalization -- Economic aspects
- Information technology -- Economic aspects
- Offshore outsourcing
- Women -- Employment -- Effect of technological innovations on
- Ghana
- 331.48165109667 23
- HD6218.3
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
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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.
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.
English.
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