History of Women in the United States : : Historical Articles on Women's Lives and Activities. / Volume 8/2, : Professional and White-Collar Employments / / ed. by Nancy F. Cott.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Benson, Susan Porter,; Carter, Susan B .,; Carter, Susan Boslego,; Chambers, Clarke A.,; Corn, Joseph J.,; Doherty, Robert E.,; Feldberg, Roslyn L.,; Fine, Lisa M.,; Maack, Mary Niles,; Mitchell, Sheila,; Quantz, Richard A.,; Stricker, Frank,; Vaughn-Roberson, Courtney Ann,
• HerausgeberIn: Cott, Nancy F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : K. G. Saur, , [2012]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: History of Women in the United States ; Volume 8/2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- “UNION FEVER”: Organizing Among Clerical Workers, 1900–1930 -- Between Two Worlds: Business Women in a Chicago Boarding House, 1900–1930 -- Tempest on the Hudson: The Struggle for “Equal Pay for Equal Work” in the New York City Public Schools, 1907–1911 -- Sometimes Independent But Never Equal–Women Teachers, 1900–1950: The Oklahoma Example -- Women’s Participation in the Olympic Games 1900–1926 -- Cookbooks and Law Books: The Hidden History of Career Women in Twentieth Century America -- Making Flying “Thinkable”: Women Pilots and the Selling of Aviation, 1927–1940 -- Toward a History of Women in Librarianship: A Critical Analysis with Suggestions for Further Research -- The Complex Visions of Female Teachers and the Failure of Unionization in the 1930s: An Oral History -- “The Clerking Sisterhood”: Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890–1960 -- Women in the Creation of the Profession of Social Work -- Occupational Segregation, Teachers’ Wages, and American Economic Growth -- Academic Women Revisited: An Empirical Study of Changing Patterns in Women’s Employment as College and University Faculty, 1890–1963 -- Copyright Information -- Index