London Clerical Workers, 1880-1914 Development of the Labour Market Perspectives in Economic and Social History Series

This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Changing Worlds and Changing People: A Definition of the Late Victorian and Edwardian London Clerk; Chapter 2 The Clerk, The Office and Work: Changing Horizons; Chapter 3 Attitudes of the Clerk Towards Work; Chapter 4 Work, Income, Promotion and Stability: The Late Victorian and Edwardian London Clerk Revisited; Chapter 5 The Mechanization and Feminization of the Office, 1870–1914: Threats or Opportunities?; Chapter 6 Education, Merit and Patronage: The London Clerical Market; Chapter 7 Commercial Education and The Clerk; Chapter 8 Clerical Trade Unions, Associations and Collective Organizations; conclusion Conclusion;

Michael Heller