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Silicon valley, women, and the California dream : gender, class, and opportunity in the twentieth century / Glenna Matthews.

Title
Silicon valley, women, and the California dream : gender, class, and opportunity in the twentieth century / Glenna Matthews.
Author
Matthews, Glenna.
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2003.

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Description
xvii, 313 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Women computer industry employees > Santa Clara Valley
  • Working class women > Santa Clara Valley
  • Women immigrants > Santa Clara Valley
  • Women foreign workers > Santa Clara Valley
  • Labor movement > History
Note
  • Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, Stanford University, 1977.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The fruited valley -- The fruit industry workforce at high tide: a wave of militancy hits the valley -- War and cold war shape the valley: the birth of a metropolis and the death of union democracy -- Toward Silicon Valley -- New immigrants and Silicon Valley: struggles, successes, and transformations -- The valley as "Feminist Capital of the Nation" -- The global economy on the home front: a tale of two valleys.
ISBN
0804741549 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002004728
OCLC
  • 49421603
  • SCSB-10451099
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library