Something fishy: tradition, technology and women’s employment
Helga Drummond
(University of Liverpool, Liverpool Institute of Public Administration and Management, Liverpool, UK)
Julia A. Kingstone Hodgson
(University of Liverpool, Liverpool Institute of Public Administration and Management, Liverpool, UK)
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Abstract
Relatively few women are employed in the so‐called “heavy industries” because the technology acts as a barrier to recruitment. Argues that apparently essential working practices may conceal institutionalized discrimination and massive inefficiency and that it is necessary to “think the unthinkable” and challenge accepted ways of working in order to improve both efficiency and employment opportunities for currently disadvantaged groups.
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Citation
Drummond, H. and Kingstone Hodgson, J.A. (1996), "Something fishy: tradition, technology and women’s employment", Work Study, Vol. 45 No. 5, pp. 21-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/00438029610125234
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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