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Sons and Daughters of Labor : Class and Clerical Work in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh / Ileen A. DeVault.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 11 b&w photographs, 4 maps, 1 graphContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501745706
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.9/651 22
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.M4 U536 1995eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: White Collar/Blue Collar -- 1. Clerical Work: "The growing complexity of business" -- 2. The School: "From inclination or necessity" -- 3. The Clerical Job Market: "Many workshops" -- 4. Families and the Collar Line: "The file clerk is just as essential" -- 5. Skilled Workers, Office Workers: "Aristocracy in the crafts" -- 6. Clerical Workers' Careers: "Not a Pittsburgh man" -- Conclusion: Class and Clerical Work -- Appendix: Description of Data -- Index
Summary: Between 1870 and 1920, the clerical sector of the U.S. economy grew more rapidly than any other. As the development of large corporations affected both the scale and the content of office work, the accompanying sexual stratification of the clerical workforce blurred the relationship between the new clerical work and earlier perceptions of white-collar status. Sons and Daughters of Labor reassesses the existence and significance of the "collar line" between white-collar and blue-collar occupations during this period of clerical work's greatest expansion and the beginning of its feminization.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: White Collar/Blue Collar -- 1. Clerical Work: "The growing complexity of business" -- 2. The School: "From inclination or necessity" -- 3. The Clerical Job Market: "Many workshops" -- 4. Families and the Collar Line: "The file clerk is just as essential" -- 5. Skilled Workers, Office Workers: "Aristocracy in the crafts" -- 6. Clerical Workers' Careers: "Not a Pittsburgh man" -- Conclusion: Class and Clerical Work -- Appendix: Description of Data -- Index

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Between 1870 and 1920, the clerical sector of the U.S. economy grew more rapidly than any other. As the development of large corporations affected both the scale and the content of office work, the accompanying sexual stratification of the clerical workforce blurred the relationship between the new clerical work and earlier perceptions of white-collar status. Sons and Daughters of Labor reassesses the existence and significance of the "collar line" between white-collar and blue-collar occupations during this period of clerical work's greatest expansion and the beginning of its feminization.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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