Pleasure, Power and Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace (Routledge Library Editions: Women and Business) - Softcover

Hacker, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138245267 ISBN 13: 9781138245266

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In this book, first published in 1989, Sally Hacker explores the answers to these and other provocative questions about our attitudes toward work and leisure. Drawing from her broad experience as a sociologist, feminist and student of engineering, Hacker helps us to understand the impact of technology on our society and how feminist principles can be used to make work life more egalitarian and more humane. In the first part of the book, the author examines various examples of the masculinization of power, ranging from military institutions to the mechanisation of farm labour, computer technology and affirmative action. In the second part, Hacker presents the results of her research on Mondragon, the world’s largest cooperative workplace, located in Spain. Hacker reaches surprising conclusions about gender and technology at Mondragon, where, in spite of the community’s egalitarian philosophy, gender inequality was as pervasive as in capitalist and socialist systems.

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Sally Hacker

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138245267
• ISBN 13: 9781138245266
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210