Professional and White-Collar Employments

ISBN-13: 9783598416941 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 334 str.

Nancy F. Cott

Opis

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Spis treści

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- "UNION FEVER": Organizing Among Clerical Workers, 1900-1930 -- Between Two Worlds: Business Women in a Chicago Boarding House, 1900-1930 -- Tempest on the Hudson: The Struggle for "Equal Pay for Equal Work" in the New York City Public Schools, 1907-1911 -- Sometimes Independent But Never Equal-Women Teachers, 1900-1950: The Oklahoma Example -- Women's Participation in the Olympic Games 1900-1926 -- Cookbooks and Law Books: The Hidden History of Career Women in Twentieth Century America -- Making Flying "Thinkable": Women Pilots and the Selling of Aviation, 1927-1940 -- Toward a History of Women in Librarianship: A Critical Analysis with Suggestions for Further Research -- The Complex Visions of Female Teachers and the Failure of Unionization in the 1930s: An Oral History -- "The Clerking Sisterhood": Rationalization and the Work Culture of Saleswomen in American Department Stores, 1890-1960 -- Women in the Creation of the Profession of Social Work -- Occupational Segregation, Teachers' Wages, and American Economic Growth -- Academic Women Revisited: An Empirical Study of Changing Patterns in Women's Employment as College and University Faculty, 1890-1963 -- Copyright Information -- Index