From Working Girl to Working Mother

From Working Girl to Working Mother
Author: Lynn Weiner
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469610280

In this fresh perspective on one of the major demographic trends in our history, Weiner skillfully interweaves evidence on women's employment, government social policy, and the contemporary debate about women's sphere to explore the interconnections between patterns of women's work and the ideologies that arose in response to that work. In uniting the sources and methods of social and intellectual history, the author illuminates the changes in women's lives during the past 250 years. Originally published in 1985. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Beyond the Typewriter

Beyond the Typewriter
Author: Sharon Hartman Strom
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252064258

This detailed account of early office working conditions and practices draws on archival and anecdotal data to analyze women officeworkers' ambitions and explore how the influences of scientific management, personnel management, and secondary vocational education affected office workplaces and hierarchies. "A richly textured and interesting book. . . . Enriches our understanding of the history of the labor force in general and office work in particular." -- American Historical Review "Strom shows, better than any other labor historian has, how class, age, and marital status divided women in the office." -- Women's Review of Books "Using massive quantitative and qualitative data, the author thoroughly examines the social conditions, prevailing ideologies, and individual responses involved. . . . Well recommended." -- Choice

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1928
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The American Journal of Sociology

The American Journal of Sociology
Author: Albion W. Small
Publisher:
Total Pages: 886
Release: 1926
Genre: Social sciences
ISBN:

Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists.

Poor Women and Their Families

Poor Women and Their Families
Author: Beverly Ann Stadum
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791407516

This book brings to life early-century counterparts of urban women identified today as victims of the "feminization of poverty" and recipients of aid from assistance programs. With new details and original interpretations, this book moves beyond earlier studies that focus only on female employment or family life of this generation. It shows what poor women tried to do in the midst of multiple roles. The book integrates themes of child rearing and homemaking with those of women's relations to men, their reliance on female kin, and their involvement in the neighborhood, in employment, and with city agencies and institutions.