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Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 Book

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  • Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930
  • Written by author Sharon Strom
  • Published by University of Illinois Press, November 1994
  • By World War I, managers wanted young women with some high school education for new "light manufacturing" jobs in the office. Women could be paid significantly less than men with equivalent educations and the "marriage bar"--the practice of not hiring or
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Pt. IEconomic and Cultural Origins of the New Office: Gendered Hierarchies of Management
1Efficiency, Accountability, and the Rise of Scientific Management15
2Gender and the Masculine Business Professions63
3"The Human Factor": Gender and Personnel Management109
4"Light Manufacturing": The Feminization of Clerical Work172
5Managers, Clerks, and the Question of Gender227
Pt. IIThe Office and the World Beyond: Office Workers and Office Work Culture
6High School, Office Work, and Female Ambition: Race, Class, and the Limits of Personal Choice273
7Falling into Clerical Work: Middle-Class Women in the Office314
8Flappers and Feminists: Women's Office Work Culture in the 1920s367
Index417


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