Reading and writing in the global workplace [ gender, literacy, and outsourcing in Ghana - Smith, Beatrice Quarshie , 1958- (Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2012)
1. Gander, globalization, and "new" workspaces -- 2. The ethnographic context : Ghana fifty-five years after independence -- 3. Gender politics and women in Ghana : a short "herstory" -- 4. Gender, knowledge and "new" work -- 5. Multi-sited ethnography and hybrid spaces -- 6. Outsourcing as "glocalization" : material practices and fluid workspaces -- 7. Literacies of outsourcing : "scapes" and "flows" of "new" work -- 8. The "new" world of work : women and workplace literacy practice
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and index
Keywords: Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Ghana; Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Ghana; Offshore outsourcing -- Ghana; Women -- Employment -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Ghana