Critical Theories, IR and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement': The Politics of Global Resistance (Routledge/Ripe Studies in Global Political Economy)

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From the Zapatistas to Seattle and beyond, the "anti-globalization movement" has been grabbing headlines and capturing political imaginations worldwide. This book explores the interface between diverse resistances to neo-liberal globalization and a range of critical theories within international relations.

Critical Theories, International Relations and 'the Anti-Globalization Movement' provides a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the "anti-globalization" struggles taking place in many different parts of the world. It shows the complexity and diversity of these movements and illustrates this with a number of detailed empirical studies of local, national and transnational resistance in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. The authors introduce a variety of competing theoretical perspectives from international political economy, social movement theory, globalization studies feminism and postmodernism, explaining how activism has influenced theory and how theory can help activists to modify their tactics.

The global protest movement has made a huge impact on world politics and this book is essential reading for students, scholars and activists with an interest in this area.

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A great book.......2000-06-12

A very pleasant biography in an original format, allowing for a good understanding of the main character. Typical american biography, where few details are untold, and where the author remains "transparent". We have to assume that B.A.Toole likes Ada, since she wrote a book about her, but we can't figure out why: was it beause she was Byron's daughter, or because she was Babbage's assistant, or because she lived an interesting life, or because she worked on early computers, or for any other reason... It might be a quality of good biographers, but as a French guy, I like to feel a greater intimacy between the autobiographer and the central character. A small disappointment: the lack of details regarding Ada's program for computing Bernouilli's numbers. Having computed some of those by myself, I know what an advantage it is to have at one's disposal a good algorithm to shorten fastidious calculations. In Toole's book, those numbers are barely mentioned, and the chapter 12, even though revised by an US Army colonel,doesn't explain why the Dept of Defense has chosen the ADA language. This having ben said, I took a great pleasure in reading a book which taught me a lot, even if Toole is too discreet on "an affair" that young Ada had when she was 17 years old with one of her preceptors (the great Turner?). Again the French side in me would have liked more details on that topic... Iconography is nice and all graphics are useful. All in all, a very good book to be read by all those who feel interested by an extraordinary woman who remains too little known by the general public.

The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World

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An original and compelling critique of capitalism

The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World
Ursula Huws
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ASIN: 1583670874
Release Date: 2003-07-01

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The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labor process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces, but for the working class as a whole.

Within advanced capitalist countries, the workplace has been made more flexible through cell phones, e-mail, freelancing, and outsourcing. The process often makes the situation of the workers more precarious, as they are forced to pay for the tools of their trade, are expected to be constantly accessible to workplace demands, and are isolated from their fellow workers.

Huws' The Making of a Cybertariat examines this process from a number of perspectives, including those of women in the workplace and at home. It explores changing categories of employment and modes of organization, and how new divisions of race and gender are created in the process. It questions how the virtual workforce can identify their common interests and stand together to struggle for them.

The Making of a Cybertariat is both a testament to the author's remarkable record in the politics of technology over several decades and a vital resource for grasping ongoing debates and controversies in this field.

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An original and compelling critique of capitalism.......2004-03-30

Ursula Huws' "The Making of a Cybertariat" is a collection of essays on the political economy of technology and its myriad social consequences. In this fascinating book, Dr. Huws has developed an original and compelling critique of contemporary capitalism. While the articles span from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the analyses are consistently razor-sharp and the insights remain as valid today as when they were originally conceived and written.

Dr. Huws has worked for many years as an activist, researcher and free lance writer living in Great Britain. She currently serves as a Professor at London Metropolitan University. Both the immediacy and the solid scholarship that infuses her writing is evidence of these myriad roles as well as Dr. Huws' professionalism and dedication to her work.

Integral to Dr. Huws' analysis is the Marxist-inspired concept of commodification, or capitalism's tendency to draw into the cash economy activities which had been previously carried out by unpaid labor. For example, the hand-washing of clothes is replaced by the laundromat and in turn by the home washing machine. With each succeeding wave of technological advancement, the division of labor increases in a manner that richly rewards technical specialists while it enslaves large masses of deskilled workers and consumers into an increasingly tenuous and impoverished lifestyle.

But Dr. Huws goes well beyond Marx by emphasizing the Feminist identification of the home (not the factory) as the primary locus of struggle. As telecommunications and computer technologies increasingly blur the distinctions between home and office, it is the female who disproportionately bears the cost of capitals' expansion, Dr. Huws posits. Capital benefits from technological innovations such as self-service banking, for example, mainly by offloading laborious tasks onto consumers. Dr. Huws goes on to state that the machines, laws and social norms that regulate domestic female behavior turns housework into "drudgery" and helps extend and enforce the sphere of male domination and control.

Within this general analytical framework, individual chapters are dedicated to discussions of the Internet and its facilitation of corporate restructuring and the outsourcing of work overseas; how women's health suffers due to inequalities in the workplace and the female ethic of sacrificial caregiving; technology's role in the failure of collectivity in the 1970s, the rise of individualism and the decline of the public sphere from the 1980s to today; the debunking of postmodern theories pertaining to the supposed dematerialization of the economy; the contestation of time wrought by the automation of routine tasks and the application of Taylorist management principles; the myriad challenges of forming a "cybertariat" class consciousness in a contingent global economy that is segmented by space, status and culture; and more.

At the close of each chapter, Dr. Huws ponders how citizens might wrest control of the work processes and technologies controlled by capital and state in order to channel it towards the cause of enriching society and empowering people.

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Hardbound. This book deals with the introduction of new technology into women's work - the impact it is making and the problems it generates. The emphasis is placed on the exploration of women's perspectives on computerization in the office and in manufacturing.

Other topics dealt with include: - an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses in women's participation in systems design and in education - an examination of the concept of skills - a comprehensive introduction to the current status of remote work.

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An international acknowledgement of the problems existing in the area of gender and computing in the 1990s is provided by this publication. The need to produce strategies and policies to rectify the situation is highlighted. Papers, both reporting original empirical research and postulating interesting theoretical perspectives are structured around five parallel themes: Community, Communications and Information Networks; Information Technology (IT), Flexibility and Restructuring; Information Systems Design and User-Centred Perspectives; Education, Training and Learning; and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Power, Knowledge and Technology.

Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future

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Still Have Gender Differences

Women, Work and Computerization: Charting a Course to the Future

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ASIN: 0792378644

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This volume contains selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Women, Work and Computerization (WWC 2000), which provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and users in the field of information technology. The conference was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in June 2000. Generous support for the publication of the proceedings was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In this book, the authors discuss how different areas of society are being transformed by computer technology. Authors have placed particular emphasis on women's experiences as computer scientists, and the mechanisms through which approaches to system design and, system design methodologies contribute to the gendered nature of computing. Other areas of emphasis include gender differences in computer use, the use of computers in everyday life, and discussions about the use of computers to promote citizenship. With the move of computers progressively into our homes, authors have increasingly looked at the use of computers to work, and learn, from home.

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Still Have Gender Differences.......2004-01-24

Computer science is one of the youngest sciences, with little history. Plus, the use of computers is quite decoupled from physical strength. Given, this, one might imagine that there would be little gender differences in the study and use of computers.

To some extent that is true, and certainly less so than in other more established fields, like engineering, which remain heavily male dominated. But these papers presented here show that, sadly, there are indeed some gender differences. The intake of females into computer science has lagged males. Partly, it reflects the mathematical nature of the subject, which acts as a deterrent to many high school girls. In other ways, computing is seen as a solitary venture, with minimal social interaction, acting as another deterrent.

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This volume considers the submissions to the 6th International IFIP-TC 9/WG 9.1 Conference on Women, Work and Computerization WWC 97. The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and users in the field of information technology. In this book the authors discuss how different areas of society are being transformed by computer technology, but with particular emphasis on changes in women's work and life and how these have come about. Such transformations include the transitions from women's traditional work to work based on modern technology; from communicating within personal communities to communicating within virtual communities; from traditional job gendering to new perspectives on "who does what".

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Women, Work and Computing
Ruth Woodfield
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521771897

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It has been suggested that the ideal worker for occupational computing is now the hybrid--someone with excellent interpersonal as well as technical skills. It has also been suggested that women, because of their historical relationship with such skills, find themselves faced with a golden opportunity in computing. A further claim that computers can provide women with additional opportunities insofar as they provide changes in gender consciousness has also been mooted. Via the exploration and analysis of new qualitative evidence this book assesses the likelihood of these opportunities being realized.

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Although few dispute the computer's place as a pivotal twentieth century artefact, little agreement has emerged over whether the changes it has precipitated are generally positive or negative in nature, or whether we should be contemplating our future association with the computer more with enthusiasm or trepidation. Specifically with regard to the relationship between women and computers, a diverse body of commentary has embraced the views of those who have found grounds for expressing pessimism about this association and those who have favoured a more optimistic assessment of the current situation and its probable future development. This book undertakes a thorough evaluation of the legitimacy and predictive power of the optimistic commentary. Using a large body of original qualitative data, it interrogates the bases of what it identifies as three waves of optimism and in doing so provides answers to some of the key questions asked in this field today.

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BizTalk Server 2000 Bible (With CD-ROM)
Geoff Snowman
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds
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ASIN: 0764547666

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