Female Corporate Culture and the New South Women in Business Between the World Wars
Auteur : Carroll Gilligan Maureen
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)
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
Date de parution : 10-1999
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 02-2019
13.8x21.6 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 14 jours).
Prix indicatif 31,44 €
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Young Men; civic boosterism; Double Entry Bookkeeping; female civicism; Double Entry; social welfare activities; Female Clerical Workers; Atlanta female workforce; Relief Administrators; rationalized labor management; Married Women; White Collar Occupational Groups; Women’s Division; Women’s Bureau; Scientific Management; Professional Women’s Club; Clerical Workforce; Female Office Workers; WPA Project; Atlanta Chamber; Scientific Management Techniques; Women’s Auxiliaries; Women’s Clubs; Sewing Rooms; Atlanta Business; National Urban Average; Opportunity School; Business Women; Girls High; Atlanta Office