Technological Change and Women's Work Experience - Alternative Methodological Perspectives

This book integrates and critically evaluates the diverse literature on the impact of technological change on women's work. It also develops a new conceptual paradigm and presents evidence of the impact of technological change on occupational sex segregation. The analysis is based on the premise that the choice of a particular methodological and epistemological paradigm has important implications for the study of women and technology. This premise leads to a careful consideration of the philosophical foundations of three methodological perspectives that have been used to examine technological change--neoclassical economics, institutional economics, and feminist methodology. Burnell's study assesses the contributions and limitations of each approach.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Alternative Methodological Perspectives
The Nature of Technological Change--Alternative Views
Labor Market Analysis
Technology, Industrial Structure, and Women's Labor Market Status
An Integrative Paradigm
New Evidence on the Relationship between Technology and Occupational Sex Segregation
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

About the author

BARBARA S. BURNELL is a professor of economics at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She has published in urban studies and economic journals and has contributed to Frese and Coggeshall, eds., Transcending Boundaries (Bergin & Garvey, 1991).

Product details

• Authors: Barbara S. Burnell, Burnell Barbara S.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.1993
• EAN: 9780897892926
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-292-6
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Feminism & feminist theory, Sociology: work & labour, Feminism and feminist theory, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Women's Studies: Business and Labor