1st Edition
Female Corporate Culture and the New South Women in Business Between the World Wars
By Maureen Carroll Gilligan
Copyright 1999
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Maureen Carroll Gilligan
