Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America
Published by Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford, 1987
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Scholarly study of the government's burgeoning clerical workforce in the wake of the Civil War, who chose to work there & why, and how the changes in the work force changed society at large. Hardcover in jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket, crease to front flap, else near fine. Text clean, no names or marks; [x], 234 pages; tables, b/w photos, comment on sources & methods - much of the book is based on employment files from the period - notes, index. Size: Octavo.
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- Title
- Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America
- Author
- Aron, Cindy Sondik
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- ISBN 10
- 0195048741
- ISBN 13
- 9780195048742
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Economics, Politics, Sociology
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"The author's consideration of both male and female workers together provides a unique and valuable perspective on the history of white collar labor and late Victorian society..."--Journal of Social History
"Fascinating....A superb example of a comparative study of the experiences and values of men and women. It is a model history of male and female interaction. It is not only good women's history, labor history, and men's history, but it makes good History."--Reviews in American History
"A perceptive and engaging case study....Deserves a wide audience among students of large-scale organizations and should be required reading for anyone attempting to refine the 'organizational synthesis' of the American past."--Business History Review
"A carefully documented, well-organized, original and convincing book....She has brilliantly portrayed late-nineteenth-century workers in the Washington offices of the Treasury and Interior departments."--The Historian
"Full, intelligent, and...on the cutting edge of current interest."--Michael H. Frisch, State University of New York at Buffalo
"Fascinating reading about the feminization of a key occupational category."--Kathryn Kish Sklar, UCLA
"This study frontally attacks the twin problems of class identity and class formation in the last half of the 19th century."--Daniel Walkowitz, New York University
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