Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 (Women in American History) - Softcover

Strom, Sharon

 
9780252064258: Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 (Women in American History)

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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.

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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.

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9780252018060: Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 (Women in American History)

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ISBN 10:  0252018060 ISBN 13:  9780252018060
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1992
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