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The potential of ICT to generate ‘solidaristic’ practices among women home‐based workers in Turkey
Author(s) -
Törenli Nurcan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
new technology, work and employment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.889
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1468-005X
pISSN - 0268-1072
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-005x.2009.00238.x
Subject(s) - information and communications technology , order (exchange) , business , training (meteorology) , labour economics , economics , computer science , geography , world wide web , finance , meteorology
The study indicates that in terms of the ‘information poor’ home‐based women workers the opportunity provided by ICT to create formal employment for those who have no professional training or skills is very limited. ICT can be of benefit to the information poor if it is used to generate ‘solidaristic’ practices in order to combat labour exploitation by the subcontractors.