Dissertation Research: Barbadian and American Women as Data Processors in the New International Division of Labor

这篇论文研究奖将资助一名人类学研究生研究信息处理行业的“粉领”部门从美国的城市中心转移到加勒比海的离岸地区，以及这些转移对被纳入为数据处理员的巴巴迪亚妇女和可能面临失业的北美工人的影响。方法包括在巴巴多斯和美国对数据处理公司的高管、政治领导人和工人进行参与者观察和结构化访谈。来自50名巴巴迪亚女性样本的数据将与数量相当的美国数据处理商在她们的生活和工作历史方面进行比较。这项研究很重要，因为美国工业的重组是现代生活中的一个重要事实，研究揭示了这对围栏两边的工人--从美国获得工作的发展中国家和面临劳动力市场变化的美国工人--意味着什么，有助于为旨在改善社会问题的社会政策提供信息。

This dissertation research award will support a graduate student in anthropology to study the movement of the "pink collar" sector of the information processing industry from urban centers in the U.S. to off-shore regions of the Caribbean, and the impact of these shifts on Barbadian women incorporated as data processors and North American workers who face possible job losses. Methods include participant observation and structured interviewing, in Barbados and in the US, of executives in the data processing firms, political leaders, and workers. Data form a sample of 50 Barbadian women will be compared to a comparable number of US data processors with respect to their life-and work-histories. This research is important because the restructuring of AMerican industry is a significant fact of modern life, and studies which shed light on what this means for workers on both sides of the fence -- the developing countries receiving jobs from the US and the American workers facing changed labor markets -- can help inform social policy aimed at ameliorating social problems.