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Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smith explores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of different socio-economic forces, con...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smith explores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of different socio-economic forces, conducting a comparative study of two distinctly different workplaces to reveal significant insights about problems of organizational hierarchy and management-employee relations in the cross-cultural environments of out-sourced business and IT process work. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xxi, 207 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739137864 0739137867 1283548801 9781283548809 9786613861252 6613861251 |
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| contents | Part 1. Preface and background -- Preface: Gender, biography, and the researcher: locating the "self" in the study of "new" workspaces -- Gender and globalizing processes -- The ethnographic context: Ghana fifty-five years after independence -- Part 2. Gender in the globalization debate -- Gender politics and women in Ghana: a short "herstory" -- Gender, knowledge and "new" work -- Part 3. Research practices -- Multi-sited ethnography and hybrid spaces -- Part 4. Literacy practices in the "new" workspaces of the global South -- Outsourcing as "glocalization:" material practices and fluid workspaces -- Literacies of outsourcing: "scapes" and "flows" of "new" work -- Part 5. Conclusion -- new workplace practices for new times -- The "new" world of work: women and workplace literacy practice -- a social practice perspective. |
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| spelling | Smith, Beatrice Quarshie, 1958- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjHHmFXxccMhD7TMPQTDmb http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012038880 Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / Beatrice Quarshie Smith. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012. 1 online resource (xxi, 207 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. Part 1. Preface and background -- Preface: Gender, biography, and the researcher: locating the "self" in the study of "new" workspaces -- Gender and globalizing processes -- The ethnographic context: Ghana fifty-five years after independence -- Part 2. Gender in the globalization debate -- Gender politics and women in Ghana: a short "herstory" -- Gender, knowledge and "new" work -- Part 3. Research practices -- Multi-sited ethnography and hybrid spaces -- Part 4. Literacy practices in the "new" workspaces of the global South -- Outsourcing as "glocalization:" material practices and fluid workspaces -- Literacies of outsourcing: "scapes" and "flows" of "new" work -- Part 5. Conclusion -- new workplace practices for new times -- The "new" world of work: women and workplace literacy practice -- a social practice perspective. Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smith explores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of different socio-economic forces, conducting a comparative study of two distinctly different workplaces to reveal significant insights about problems of organizational hierarchy and management-employee relations in the cross-cultural environments of out-sourced business and IT process work. English. Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on Ghana. Offshore outsourcing Ghana. Information technology Economic aspects Ghana. Globalization Economic aspects Ghana. Femmes Travail Effets des innovations sur Ghāna. Impartition à l'étranger Ghāna. Technologie de l'information Aspect économique Ghāna. Mondialisation Ghāna. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Labor. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE Labor & Industrial Relations. bisacsh Globalization Economic aspects fast Information technology Economic aspects fast Offshore outsourcing fast Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on fast Ghana fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrwWdFrtwYQThrFvRGJXd has work: Reading and writing in the global workplace (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGDjHjRBFDWbTYVpKmJQ4q https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Reading and writing in the global workplace. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012 9780739137840 (DLC) 2012011440 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBU FWS_PDA_EBU https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=478265 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Smith, Beatrice Quarshie, 1958- Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / Part 1. Preface and background -- Preface: Gender, biography, and the researcher: locating the "self" in the study of "new" workspaces -- Gender and globalizing processes -- The ethnographic context: Ghana fifty-five years after independence -- Part 2. Gender in the globalization debate -- Gender politics and women in Ghana: a short "herstory" -- Gender, knowledge and "new" work -- Part 3. Research practices -- Multi-sited ethnography and hybrid spaces -- Part 4. Literacy practices in the "new" workspaces of the global South -- Outsourcing as "glocalization:" material practices and fluid workspaces -- Literacies of outsourcing: "scapes" and "flows" of "new" work -- Part 5. Conclusion -- new workplace practices for new times -- The "new" world of work: women and workplace literacy practice -- a social practice perspective. Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on Ghana. Offshore outsourcing Ghana. Information technology Economic aspects Ghana. Globalization Economic aspects Ghana. Femmes Travail Effets des innovations sur Ghāna. Impartition à l'étranger Ghāna. Technologie de l'information Aspect économique Ghāna. Mondialisation Ghāna. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Labor. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE Labor & Industrial Relations. bisacsh Globalization Economic aspects fast Information technology Economic aspects fast Offshore outsourcing fast Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on fast |
| title | Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / |
| title_auth | Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / |
| title_exact_search | Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / |
| title_full | Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / Beatrice Quarshie Smith. |
| title_fullStr | Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / Beatrice Quarshie Smith. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reading and writing in the global workplace : gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / Beatrice Quarshie Smith. |
| title_short | Reading and writing in the global workplace : |
| title_sort | reading and writing in the global workplace gender literacy and outsourcing in ghana |
| title_sub | gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana / |
| topic | Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on Ghana. Offshore outsourcing Ghana. Information technology Economic aspects Ghana. Globalization Economic aspects Ghana. Femmes Travail Effets des innovations sur Ghāna. Impartition à l'étranger Ghāna. Technologie de l'information Aspect économique Ghāna. Mondialisation Ghāna. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Labor. bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE Labor & Industrial Relations. bisacsh Globalization Economic aspects fast Information technology Economic aspects fast Offshore outsourcing fast Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on fast |
| topic_facet | Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on Ghana. Offshore outsourcing Ghana. Information technology Economic aspects Ghana. Globalization Economic aspects Ghana. Femmes Travail Effets des innovations sur Ghāna. Impartition à l'étranger Ghāna. Technologie de l'information Aspect économique Ghāna. Mondialisation Ghāna. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE Labor & Industrial Relations. Globalization Economic aspects Information technology Economic aspects Offshore outsourcing Women Employment Effect of technological innovations on Ghana |
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