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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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Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, edited by Gertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover
Language
eng
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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electronic resource
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dictionariesbibliography
Oclc number
958105719
Responsibility statement
edited by Gertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover
Series statement
Open Access e-Books
Table Of Contents
ch. 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 Rostge?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
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