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Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930
Sharon Strom
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Description for Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930
Hardback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
In the early twentieth century, office jobs allowed increasing numbers of women a new option for careers. Sharon Hartman Strom's detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women office workers' ambitions. She also explores how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies.
In the early twentieth century, office jobs allowed increasing numbers of women a new option for careers. Sharon Hartman Strom's detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women office workers' ambitions. She also explores how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Women in American History
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252064258
SKU
V9780252064258
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Ref
99-50
About Sharon Strom
Sharon Hartman Strom is a professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Fortune, Fame and Desire: Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century and Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform.
Reviews for Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930
"A richly textured and interesting book. . . . Enriches our understanding of the history of the labor force in general and office work in particular."
American Historical Review "Strom shows, better than any other labor historian has, how class, age, and marital status divided women in the office."
Women's Review of Books "Using massive quantitative and qualitative ... Read more
American Historical Review "Strom shows, better than any other labor historian has, how class, age, and marital status divided women in the office."
Women's Review of Books "Using massive quantitative and qualitative ... Read more