Maureen Carroll Gilligan

Female Corporate Culture and the New South (eBook, PDF)

Women in Business Between the World Wars

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 milieu.
Businessmen throughout the South molded this workforce to meet their needs using both labor-saving management techniques and exploiting social mores to enforce gender boundaries that limited women's workplace opportunities. This study traces the social and economic implications of Southern 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 clubs and organizations, women struggled with their new identities as workers and attempted to integrate their work lives with their community and family obligations.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 1995; revised with new Introduction and Preface)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135674106
• Artikelnr.: 55682916

Autorenporträt

Maureen Carroll Gilligan

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One
Urbanization
Clerical Work
and the Modem Southern Woman
Chapter Two A Manageable Workforce: Scientific Management and Women Workers
Chapter Three What An Office Should Be
Chapter Four Building Civic Bridges: Building Business Consensus
Chapter Five Businesswomen's Idealism: Civicism and the Clerical Worker
Chapter Six Losing Ground
Conclusion