Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /

Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Gertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover. - 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)

chapter 1. General introduction / Gertjan de Groot, Marlou Schrover -- chapter 2. Frames of reference : skill, gender and new technology in the hosiery industry / Harriet Bradley -- chapter 3. The creation of a gendered division of labour in the Danish textile industry / Marianne Rostg�e�?rd -- chapter 4. Foreign technology and the gender division of labour in a Dutch cotton spinning mill / Gertjan de Groot -- chapter 5. The mysteries of the typewriter' : technology and gender in the British Civil Service, 1870-1914 / Meta Zimmeck -- chapter 6. 'A revolution in the workplace'? Women's work in munitions factories and technological change 1914-1918 / Deborah Thom -- chapter 7. Gender and technological change in the north Staffordshire pottery industry / Jacqueline Sarsby -- chapter 8. Periodization and the engendering of technology : the pottery of Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1880-1980 / Ulla Wikander -- chapter 9. Creating gender : technology and femininity in the Swedish dairy industry / Lena Sommestad -- chapter 10. Cooking up women's work : women workers in the Dutch food industries 1889-1960 / Marlou Schrover.

9780203991084 9781135747503 9781135747541 9781135747558

10.4324/9780203991084 doi


Women--Employment--History.--Europe
Employees--Effect of technological innovations on--History.--Europe
Sexual division of labor--History.--Europe

HD6134 / .W654 1995

331.4094 / W872