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In the early twentieth century, office jobs allowed increasing numbers of women a new option for careers. Sharon Hartman Strom's detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women office workers' ambitions. She also explores how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies.

Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930

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    Publisher: University of Illinois Press
    Publication Date: 01/11/1994
    ISBN13: 9780252064258, 978-0252064258
    ISBN10: 0252064259

    Number of Pages: 464

    Non Fiction , Business, Finance & Law

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    In the early twentieth century, office jobs allowed increasing numbers of women a new option for careers. Sharon Hartman Strom's detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women office workers' ambitions. She also explores how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies.

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