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The relationship of women to industrial technology has been a curiously passive one. Women have been both acted upon by technological change and exploited by capital as unskilled operators of the new forces of production. But we have seldom been the inventors of new technologies. Very often we have been completely absent from the scene of the action. Today this absence is at last becoming a subject of debate (McGaw, 1982; Rothschild, 1983; Zimmerman, 1983; Griffiths, forthcoming).
The research referred to was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Equal Opportunities Commission and carried out at the City University, London, where the author is a research fellow. It will be reported in full in a book to be published by Pluto Press in 1986.
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Cockburn, C. (1986). Women and Technology: Opportunity Is not Enough. In: Purcell, K., Wood, S., Waton, A., Allen, S. (eds) The Changing Experience of Employment. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18465-1_10
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