Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover.
• Other Names: Groot, Gertjan de; Schrover, Marlou, 1959-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (214 pages)
• Subjects: 305.43094; 331.4/094; Women -- Employment -- Europe -- History; Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Europe -- History; Sexual division of labor -- Europe -- History; Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on; Sexual division of labor; Women -- Employment; Vrouwenarbeid; Werkende vrouwen; Technische vernieuwing; Arbeiterin; Frauenarbeit; Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung; Industrialisierung; Technik; Technischer Fortschritt; Femmes -- Travail -- Europe -- Histoire; Travailleuses -- Effets des innovations -- Europe -- Histoire; Division sexuelle du travail -- Europe -- Histoire; Frauenarbeit; Technik; Aufsatzsammlung; Technischer Fortschritt; Arbeiterin; Europe; Europa; Westeuropa; Westeuropa; Aufsatzsammlung; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135747541; 1135747547
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.