Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age

by Virginia Eubanks

Book Overview

The realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the United States.

The idea that technology will pave the road to prosperity has been promoted through both boom and bust. Today we are told that universal broadband access, high-tech jobs, and cutting-edge science will pull us out of our current economic downturn and move us toward social and economic equality. In Digital Dead End, Virginia Eubanks argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518139
• ISBN13: 9780262518130
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher