BROTHERS - Softcover

Cockburn, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745305830 ISBN 13: 9780745305837

Publisher: Pluto Press, 1991

Synopsis

'Cockburn has managed that most difficult of tasks: to produce a book on an important social issue which is theoretically interesteing, factually informative and well written' New Society

About this title

About the Author:

Cynthia Cockburn is a researcher and writer in the sociology of work and gender at The City University, London. She studied at the London College of printing and is a member of the National Union of Journalists. She is author of The Local State and Machinery of Dominance (Pluto 1977 and 1985) and Two-Track Training and In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations (1987 and 1991).

Review:

'Cockburn has managed that most difficult of tasks: to produce a book on an important social issue which is theoretically interesteing, factually informative and well written' New Society'A fine case study of recent technological change' Technology and Culture' A disturbing and thought-provoking book, particularly for men' Print' She dissects the culture of the industry in a gripping and disturbing way... My own experience as a time-served compositor in the boom years of the post-war printing industry is joyfully, and painfully, revived in Brothers' Printing World

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0745305830
• ISBN 13: 9780745305837
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296