02655oam 22005174a 450 991028933990332120230621140751.01-4399-1754-X(CKB)4100000007010751(OCoLC)1048877416(MdBmJHUP)muse70124(WaSeSS)IndRDA00125288(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89031(EXLCZ)99410000000701075119850701d1985 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Process of Occupational Sex-TypingThe Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain /Samuel CohnTemple University Press2018Philadelphia :Temple University Press,1985.©1985.1 online resource (viii, 279 p. )Women in the Political EconomyIncludes index.Bibliography: p. 253-266.Samuel Cohn’s critical study of two Victorian British firms represents a radically new examination of women’s work. By contrasting the Post Office, which was the first employer to use female clerks instead of males, and the Great Western Railway, one of the last employers to make this change, Cohn identifies the organizational and economic limits to female employment. The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing challenges traditional accounts of clerical feminization that invoke cultural restrictions on women’s work, human capital theory, discrimination by co-workers, and the de-skilling of jobs. Further, Cohn puts forward an alternative theory of occupational sex-typing that emphasizes the high cost of male labor, differences between organizations in their ability to tolerate discrimination, the latent contradictions within internal labor markets, and competition to women from other sources of cheap labor.Women in the political economy.WomenEmploymentGreat BritainHistoryWomen clerksGreat BritainHistorySexual division of laborGreat BritainHistoryElectronic books. Industrial arbitration & negotiationWomenEmploymentHistory.Women clerksHistory.Sexual division of laborHistory.331.4/8165137/0941Cohn Samuel1954-1023943MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910289339903321The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing2433168UNINA