The Invisible Backbone: Intersections of Class, Race and Gender in a Global Information Economy

With the growth of information technology, there has been an impact upon the way in which both society and its members work. This has, for many, heralded the beginning of a new age (Lyon, 1988). Some theorists argue that contemporary society has developed into a ‘knowledge’ or ‘information’ economy, which has seen the rise in high skilled, professional, meaningful work and the decline of low skilled work due to the need for a competitive advantage in a global economy (Grint and Nixon, 2015). However, in this critical reflection I will argue that the information economy is a misnomer that distorts the position of women and presents a one sided image of the global economy.