Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Gertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover.

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor and Francis, 1995Description: 1 online resource (ix, 206 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203991087
9780203991084
9786610175512
6610175519
9780748402601
0748402608
0748402837
9780748402830
0748402845
9780748402847
0748402616
9780748402618

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.DDC classification:

331.4/094 20

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HD6134 .W654 1995eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

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.