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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgment -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I GENDER, TECHNOLOGY, AND WORK: . THOUGHT AND ACTION -- 1 Tools of Pleasure and Power -- 2 Research, Action, and Theoretical Perspectives -- 3 Discipline and Pleasure in Engineering -- 4 Military Institutions and Gender Inequality -- PART II MONDRAGON: GENDER, TECHNOLOGY, AND POWER IN COOPERATIVE WORKPLACES -- 5 Cooperativism: Principles and Practice -- 6 Women Workers in the Mondragon System of Producer Cooperatives -- 7 Gender and Technology in the Mondragon System -- 8 Conclusion Stories -- Raising Hell: A Sketch of the Sociologist as Intellectual and Activist -- References -- Index

Mondragon is known as a system of democratically structured producer cooperatives, yet the condition of women workers is only somewhat better, relative to men, than in capitalist or already existing socialist organizations. Three major factors appear responsible. First, waged or not, women have responsibility for the home. Second, a capitalist market devalues social goals. Third, and the primary topic of this paper, men control decisions about technology, commonly understood. As in other industrial settings, the manufacturing technology of the cooperatives, and much of their administrative apparatus, have origins in patriarchal military institutions. Engineering education, also with roots in military institutions, is one source of gender maintenance during times of technological transformation. This hierarchical organization of technology stands in contradiction to the ideology and core elements of cooperative structure.

A feminist analysis of the Basque Mondragon system of industrial cooperatives suggests that women fare somewhat better in cooperatives than in private firms in employment, earnings, and job security. Market phenomena and the family as basic economic unit affect women workers negatively, as does increasing professionalism in the technical core of the system. Similarities in gender stratification and segregation in capitalist, socialist, and cooperative workplaces call into question the ability of all three to deal adequately with gender equality. Full workplace democracy may depend on the distribution of goods and services based on need rather than work or the wage, socialization of homework and child care, degendering of technical and scientific knowledge, its dissemination as widely as possible throughout the workplace and the community, and the inclusion of all members of the community in major decisions. The article ends with modest suggestions for alleviating one pervasive problem in large industrial cooperatives—the concentration of technical and scientific skill among a few, primarily men.

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