"Doing It the Hard Way": Investigations of Gender and Technology.

Part 1 Women, technology and the corporations: sex stratification, technology and organizational change - a longitudinal case study of AT farming out the home - women and the agribusiness technological change and women's role in agribusiness - methods of research in social action. Part 2 Gender and the culture of technology: the culture of engineering - women, workplace and machines engineering the shape of work mathematization of engineering - limits on women in the field. Part 3 Technological change and the changing stratification of engineering automators and automated - human and social effects of technological change computers in the workplace - stratification and labour process among engineers and technicians. Part 4 Sexuality and technology - feminist/Left debates the eye of the beholder - an essay on technology and eroticism.