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 (ix, 206 pages) : illustrations, map

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frames of reference : skill, gender and new technology in the hosiery industry / Harriet Bradley -- The creation of a gendered division of labour in the Danish Textile industry / Marianne Rostgård -- Foreign technology and the gender division of labour in a Dutch cotton spinning mill / Gertjan de Groot -- 'The mysteries of the typewriter' : technology and gender in the British civil service, 1870-1914 / Meta Zimmeck -- 'A revolution in the workplace'? Women's work in munitions factories and technological change 1914-1918 / Deborah Thom -- Gender and technological change in the North Staffordshire pottery industry / Jacqueline Sarsby -- Periodization and the engendering of technology : the pottery of Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1880-1980 / Ulla Wikander -- Creating gender : technology and femininity in the Swedish dairy industry / Lena Sommestad -- Cooking up women's work : women workers in the Dutch food industries 1889-1960 / Marlou Schrover.

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Women--Employment--History.--Europe
Employees--Effect of technological innovations on--History.--Europe
Sexual division of labor--History.--Europe
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Labor & Industrial Relations.
Employees--Effect of technological innovations on.
Sexual division of labor.
Women--Employment.


Europe.

Women Employment Europe


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

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