Woman's Place Is at the Typewriter Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-1930

• Main Author: Davies, Margery W. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Temple University Press 1982
• Subjects: Social & cultural history; Industrial arbitration & negotiation; Gender studies: women; History; Political Science; Sociology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Before 1900, male clerical workers, as apprentice capitalists, performed a wide variety of tasks that helped them learn the business. By 1930, the class position of clerical workers had changed, and autonomous male clerks were transformed into working class females-a "secretarial proletariat.&q...