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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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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