London clerical workers, 1880-1914 : development of the labour market / / by Michael Heller

• Autore: Heller Michael
• Pubblicazione: London, : Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.96513709421
• Soggetto topico: Clerks - England - Social conditions - 19th century; Clerks - England - Economic conditions - 20th century; Clerks - England - Economic conditions - 19th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-254) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: London clerical workers, 1880-1914
• ISBN: 1-315-65598-5; 1-317-32370-X; 1-317-32371-8; 1-282-82238-1; 9786612822384; 1-84893-055-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815396903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Perspectives in economic and social history ; ; no. 8.