Pleasure, Power, and Technology: Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace

This study explores the links between feminism, co-operatism and technology. The author reflects on the development of the women's movement, the co-operative movement and the attitudes toward technology within both. It includes a case study of the Mondragon co-operatives and the role of women in them. Also included are theoretical reflections on the potential for a feminist co-operative movement in the USA.