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Record Nr.

UNINA9911003659103321

Autore

De Groot Gertjan

Titolo

Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / edited by Gertjan De Groot and Marlou Schrover

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Taylor & Francis, c1995

ISBN

1-135-74754-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix,206p. ) : ill., map

Classificazione

BUS000000HIS000000POL013000

Altri autori (Persone)

GrootGertjan de

SchroverMarlou <1959->

Disciplina

305.43094

Soggetti

Women - Europe - Effect of technological innovations on - History - 19th century

Women - Europe - Effect of technological innovations on - History - 20th century

Women in technology - Europe - History - 19th century

Women in technology - Europe - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

General Introduction; Frames of Reference: Skill, Gender and New Technology in the Hosiery Industry; The Creation of a Gendered Division of Labour in the Danish Textile Industry; Foreign Technology and the Gender Division of Labour in a Dutch Cotton Spinning Mill; "The Mysteries of the Typewriter": Technology and Gender in the British Civil Service, 1870- 1914; "A Revolution in the Workplace?": Women's Work in Munitions Factories and Technological Change 1914-1918; Gender and Technological Change in the North Staffordshire Pottery Industry; Periodisation and the Engendering of Technology: the Pottery of Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1880-1980; Creating Gender: Technology and Feminity in the Swedish Dairy Industry; Cooking up Women's Work: Women Workers in the Dutch Food Industries 1889- 1960.

Sommario/riassunto

Traces the origins of the segregation between women's and men's work in the 19th and 20th century. It rejects the idea that women were mainly employed as unskilled labour, asserting that women's skills



were required but that historical records and social definitions of "skill" have denied this.