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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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DeVault, Ileen A.,
MitwirkendeR:
Devault, Ileen A.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1995
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 11 b&w photographs, 4 maps, 1 graph
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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