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Author Hakken, David J

Title Computing Myths, Class Realities : an Ethnography of Technology and Working People in Sheffield, England
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages)
Series Conflict and social change series
Conflict and social change series.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theoretical Issues Addressed by the Book; Computerization and Working-Class People in South Yorkshire; An Ethnographic/Ethnological Record; Structure of the Book; The Authors; Notes; PART ONE Studying Computerization; 1 Why Study Computerization?; Computerization's Perceived Connection to Social Change; Contradictions in Discourse About Computing; Notes; 2 Studying Computing Ethnographically in South Yorkshire; What Is Ethnography?; Computerization in South Yorkshire; Working-Class Culture
Class in SheffieldSummary; Notes; 3 The Methods Used to Study Computing in Sheffield; The Research Problem; Developing a Social Role; The 1970s: Research on Workers' Education; The 1980s: Action Research in Computing Studies; Summary; Notes; PART TWO Describing Computerization; 4 Computerization of Work; How Should Computerization Be Described?; Computers in Primary Productive Activity; Summary; Notes; 5 Computing and Jobs; Computing and Labor; Patterns of Labor Computerization; Notes; 6 Computerization and the Reproduction of Symbols; Arenas of Semiotic Reproduction; Working-Class Culture
Theories of the StateSummary; Notes; 9 Sheffield Computerization and the World Political Economy; NIT as a Cause of Political Economic Change; The Disorganizing Contemporary World Political Economy; Political Economic Disorganization in South Yorkshire; An End to Regional Disorganization?; Technology, Political Economy, and Social Change; Notes; 10 Computerization and the Region; A Contemporary Statistical Picture; The Dynamics of Change in the Regional Labor Market; Region, Skill, and Computerization; Gendering and Labor Market Change; The Limits of a Regional Structure Perspective; Notes
PART FOUR Making Computerization11 Culture-Centered Computing and Local Policy; NMS in South Yorkshire; Culture-Centered Computing; Health Computerization: A Culture-Centered Computing ""Best Case, ; Informating Health in Sheffield: Organizational Infrastructure; Computing and Politics; The Failures of Computing Policy: 1987; The Fate of New Municipal Socialism; Culture-Centered Computing and the Reproduction of the Local State; Notes; 12 Computing and Gender; The Women's Movement in South Yorkshire; Gendering and Computing; Gender Politics and NIT; Notes
Summary Notes; PART THREE Analyzing Computing Structurally; 7 Theorizing Computerization; The Ethnographic Necessity of Ethnology; Is ""The New Information Society"" an Ethnologically Valid Label?; Analyzing Computers as a Technology; Technology and Ethnology; Social Formation Reproduction; Class and Social Formation Reproduction; Theories of Class; Notes; 8 The National State and Computerization; Patterns of Computerization; The British State's Computing Policy in the 1980s; The Mass Media, the State, and NIT; Civil Rights and Computerization; Centralization; Computing and State Policy Goals
Notes 13 Class, Culture, Computing, and Politics
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Subject Working class -- England -- Sheffield
Employees -- Effect of automation on -- England -- Sheffield
Computers -- Social aspects -- England -- Sheffield
Ethnology -- England -- Sheffield
Computers -- Social aspects
Employees -- Effect of automation on
Ethnology
Manners and customs
Working class
Arbeiter
Datenverarbeitung
Informationstechnik
Sozialer Wandel
Automatisering.
Werknemers.
Sociale aspecten.
SUBJECT Sheffield (England) -- Social life and customs
Subject England -- Sheffield
Sheffield
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429702525
0429702523
9780429722530
0429722532