Computing Myths, Class Realities
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anthropology sociocultural change
Author_David Hakken
Category=JHM
Computer Technology
Computerization
Computerization Movement
Computing Policy
Contemporary Societies
digital workplace transformation
Educational Association
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ethnographic research methods
ethnography
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gender and technology
ICL
industrial sociology
labor studies
Life Forms
Manpower Service Commission Programs
Nuclear Disarmament
NUM
Primary Productive Activity
regional labour market
Sheffield Region
Social Formation Reproduction
Social Reproduction
sociocultural change
sociotechnical systems
South Yorkshire
South Yorkshire County Council
technology impact on working class communities
Telecommunications
Wo
Working Class Culture
Working Class People
World Political Economy
Young Man
Youth Training Scheme
Product details
- ISBN 9780367016043
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 152 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study of computing in an economically transforming city in the north of England looks at how new information technologies effect and are affected by a historically vibrant working-class culture. Stressing the complex interplay between technology and culture, especially notions about work and labor, the authors examine how this dynamic is manifest in computer-related jobs, in social relationships, and in the reproduction of local culture. They analyze the structure of computing in Sheffield, placing it in the contexts of national state policy, world political economy, and the regional labor market, and they explore the processes of computing in relation to the reproduction of gendering, the rise of "labor freedom," and local attempts to influence the course of computerization. The experiences of the people in Sheffield and South Yorkshire have much to teach us about what technology does and what we can do to control it. Computing Myths, Class Realities will be of interest not only to anthropologists and sociologists but to all scholars interested in the social correlates of computing.
