Female corporate culture and the new South : women in business between the world wars /
Before World War I, Southern women's participation in the workforce consisted of black women's domestic labor and white working-class women's industrial or manufacturing work, but after the war, Southern women flooded business offices as stenographers, typists, clerks, and bookkeepers...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Garland Pub.,
1999
New York : Garland Publishing, Inc., c1999 New York : 1999 |
| Series: | Garland studies in the history of American labor
Garland studies in the history of American labor |
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| Summary: | Before World War I, Southern women's participation in the workforce consisted of black women's domestic labor and white working-class women's industrial or manufacturing work, but after the war, Southern women flooded business offices as stenographers, typists, clerks, and bookkeepers. This book examines their experiences in the clerical workforce, using both traditional labor sources and exploring the cultural institutions that evolved from these women's work-related millieu Businessmen throughout the South molded this workforce to meet their needs using both labor-saving management techniques and exploiting social morns to enforce gender boundaries that limited women's workplace opportunities. This study traces the social and economic implications of Sour. hem women's increased participation in clerical labor after World War I. While it increased the civic activities of white middle-class southern women, it also confined them to a routinized days work and limited venues of occupational achievement. Through a varied network of business women's dubs and organizations, women struggled with their new identities as workers and attempted to integrate their work lives with their community and family obligations |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 178 p. ; 23 cm xiv, 178 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-72) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-72) and index |
| ISBN: | 0815331843 (alk. paper) 0815331843 9780815331841 (alk. paper) |