03659nam 2200673 a 450 991097278910332120200520144314.01-315-65598-51-317-32370-X1-317-32371-81-282-82238-197866128223841-84893-055-0(CKB)2670000000048499(EBL)1510863(OCoLC)865330615(SSID)ssj0000422286(PQKBManifestationID)11282626(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422286(PQKBWorkID)10416164(PQKB)11216124(MiAaPQ)EBC2126808(MiAaPQ)EBC4015306(MiAaPQ)EBC1510863(UkCbUP)CR9781848930551(EXLCZ)99267000000004849920101105d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLondon clerical workers, 1880-1914 development of the labour market /by Michael Heller1st ed.London Pickering & Chatto Publishers20111 online resource (xi, 262 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Perspectives in economic and social history ;v. 8Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).1-84893-054-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-254) and index.Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. Changing Worlds and Changing People ; 2. The Clerk, the Office and Work; 3. Attitudes of Clerk Towards Work; 4. Work, Income, Promotion and Stability; 5. The Mechanization and Feminization of the Office; 6. Education, Merit and Patronage; 7. Commercial Education and the Clerk; 8. Clerical Trade Unions, Associations and Collective Organizations; Conclusion; Notes; IndexDespite more than ten per cent of male Londoners being clerical workers at a time when London was the largest city in the world, no study has ever been carried out on this important historical demographic. This monograph is a comprehensive study of metropolitan clerks, examining aspects such as the changing dynamic of the clerical profession, the emergence of large scale organizations, the feminization and rationalization of the office, recruitment, remuneration, the rising importance of technical education and formal qualifications and the attitudes of clerks towards their work. Based on a wide range of sources including archives, contemporary literature, government and professional sources, diaries and interviews, newspapers and novels, Heller puts forward a new interpretation of clerical work, arguing that the growth, modernization and structural transformation of offices and the development of the clerical labour market was benign overall and had important long term implications for the history of work in London.Perspectives in economic and social history ;no. 8.ClerksEnglandSocial conditions19th centuryClerksEnglandEconomic conditions20th centuryClerksEnglandEconomic conditions19th centuryClerksSocial conditionsClerksEconomic conditionsClerksEconomic conditions305.96513709421305.96513709421Heller Michael42339MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972789103321London clerical workers, 1880-19144410230UNINA