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Gender, Ethnicity and Technological Change

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  • Wuokko Knocke

    (The Swedish Center for Working Life)

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This article explores the work experiences of women and men, all immigrants, at one of Volvo's largest car assembly plants. It poses questions about what happens to them in the process of technological change and how they interpret their situation. Starting with a critical assessment of theories on the new organization of work from a gender and ethnic perspective, the study analyses the effects of gendered and ethnicized thinking in the work process. By comparing the work experiences of Finnish and Yugoslav women and men with regard to work situation, internal skill and career development in the context of technological change, a gendered and ethnic pattern emerges. The results indicate that gendered values exclude women immigrants from opportunities inherent in technological change, irrespective of their particular ethnic origin. Immigrant men, on the other hand, are selectively affected by obstacles to career development, by different sets of ethnic prejudice that have developed.

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  • Wuokko Knocke, 1994. "Gender, Ethnicity and Technological Change," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 15(1), pages 11-34, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:15:y:1994:i:1:p:11-34
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X94151002
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    1. Kari Waerness, 1984. "The Rationality of Caring," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 5(2), pages 185-211, May.
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    3. Wolfgang Streeck, 1987. "Industrial Relations and Industrial Change: The Restructuring of the World Automobile Industry in the 1970s and 1980s," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 8(4), pages 437-462, November.
    4. Wuokko Knocke, 1991. "Women Immigrants What is the 'Problem'?," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 12(4), pages 469-486, November.
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    1. Wuokko Knocke, 2000. "Integration or Segregation? Immigrant Populations Facing the Labour Market in Sweden," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 21(3), pages 361-380, August.

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