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UNINA9911003659103321 |
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Autore |
De Groot Gertjan |
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Titolo |
Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / edited by Gertjan De Groot and Marlou Schrover |
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London, : Taylor & Francis, c1995 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix,206p. ) : ill., map |
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Classificazione |
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BUS000000HIS000000POL013000 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GrootGertjan de |
SchroverMarlou <1959-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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