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

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; Bristol, Pa. : Taylor & Francis, 1995.Description: x, 214 p. : ill., mapISBN:
  • 9780203991084
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
ch. 1. General introduction / Gertjan de Groot, Marlou Schrover -- ch. 2. Frames of reference : skill, gender and new technology in the hosiery industry / Harriet Bradley -- ch. 3. The creation of a gendered division of labour in the Danish textile industry / Marianne Rostgård -- ch. 4. Foreign technology and the gender division of labour in a Dutch cotton spinning mill / Gertjan de Groot -- ch. 5. The mysteries of the typewriter' : technology and gender in the British Civil Service, 1870-1914 / Meta Zimmeck -- ch. 6. 'A revolution in the workplace'? Women's work in munitions factories and technological change 1914-1918 / Deborah Thom -- ch. 7. Gender and technological change in the north Staffordshire pottery industry / Jacqueline Sarsby -- ch. 8. Periodization and the engendering of technology : the pottery of Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1880-1980 / Ulla Wikander -- ch. 9. Creating gender : technology and femininity in the Swedish dairy industry / Lena Sommestad -- ch. 10. Cooking up women's work : women workers in the Dutch food industries 1889-1960 / Marlou Schrover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Also available in print edition.

Electronic reproduction. [London, Eng. : Taylor and Francis, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.

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