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...

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.

Author: Glenna Matthews
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/20/2002
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.02w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780804747967

About the Author
Glenna Matthews is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Just a Housewife: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America (Oxford, 1987) and The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place, 1630-1970 (Oxford, 1992). The author of five books in all and numerous articles, Matthews has also curated an exhibit on the history of San Francisco for the San Francisco Public Library, and served as the principal consultant for an award-winning documentary about the historian Angie Debo