Sons and Daughters of Labor : : Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh / / Ileen A. DeVault.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: DeVault, Ileen A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Devault, Ileen A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 11 b&w photographs, 4 maps, 1 graph
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations, Figures, and Tables --; Preface --; Introduction: White Collar/Blue Collar --; 1. Clerical Work: "The growing complexity of business" --; 2. The School: "From inclination or necessity" --; 3. The Clerical Job Market: "Many workshops" --; 4. Families and the Collar Line: "The file clerk is just as essential" --; 5. Skilled Workers, Office Workers: "Aristocracy in the crafts" --; 6. Clerical Workers' Careers: "Not a Pittsburgh man" --; Conclusion: Class and Clerical Work --; Appendix: Description of Data --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501745706; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501745706
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ileen A. DeVault.

Between 1870 and 1920, the clerical sector of the U.S. economy grew more rapidly than any other. As the development of large corporations affected both the scale and the content of office work, the accompanying sexual stratification of the clerical workforce blurred the relationship between the new clerical work and earlier perceptions of white-collar status. Sons and Daughters of Labor reassesses the existence and significance of the "collar line" between white-collar and blue-collar occupations during this period of clerical work's greatest expansion and the beginning of its feminization.