Windows on the Workplace: Computers and Jobs

Joan Greenbaum

Tuesday, 07 Feb 1995 at 12:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union

Joan Greenbaum is professor of computer information systems at LaGuardia community College, City University of new York, and visiting professor of economics at Barnard college. She is the author of Windows on the Workplace: Computers, Jobs, and the Organization of Office Work in the Late Twentieth Century and In the Name of Efficiency. She is co-editor of Design at Work and has written on the gender aspects of technology in the workplace.
Part of the National Affairs Series

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