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

by Sharon Hartman Strom

This detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women officeworkers' ambitions and explore how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies. "A richly textured and interesting book. . . . Enriches our understanding of the history of the labor force in general and office work in particular." -- American Historical Review "Strom shows, better than any other labor historian has, how class, age, and marital status divided women in the office." -- Women's Review of Books "Using massive quantitative and qualitative data, the author thoroughly examines the social conditions, prevailing ideologies, and individual responses involved. . . . Well recommended." -- Choice

• ISBN10: 0252018060
• ISBN13: 9780252018060
• Publish Date: 1 June 1992
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 10 July 2009
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: University of Illinois Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 464
• Language: English