Female Corporate Culture and the New South

Name: Female Corporate Culture and the New South
Brand: Routledge
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By Maureen Carroll Gilligan

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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 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)

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 194
Release Date:: 1999-06-01
Publication Date:: 1999-04-01
Publisher:: Routledge
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0815331843
ISBN13:: 9780815331841
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 382 g
Height:: 145 cm
Width:: 222 cm
Thickness:: 14 cm

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