Beyond the Typewriter
Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930
Sharon Hartman Strom
University of Illinois Press, 1992
In the early twentieth century, office jobs allowed increasing numbers of women a new option for careers. Sharon Hartman Strom's detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women office workers' ambitions. She also explores how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies.
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