Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century

By Glenna Matthews

Book Overview

What accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor unions declined in their influence? This book examines these questions from a fresh perspective: that provided by the history of women in Silicon Valley in the twentieth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804747962
• ISBN13: 9780804747967
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"