High Tech and High Heels in the Global EconomyHigh Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freemans fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalismproduction, consumption, and the crafting of modern identitiesin the lives of Afro Caribbean women working in a new high tech industry called informatics. It places gender at the center of transnational