Women Workers And Technological Change In Europe In The Nineteenth And twentieth century
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European textile industries
Factories
femininity
food production
Freehand Painting
gender
Gender Integration
gendered labour history
Government
Hand Copying
historical analysis of women's industrial roles
Hosiery Industry
Hosiery Workers
Income
Increased Gender Segregation
industrial revolution women
Itinerant Teachers
Labourers
Law
Literature
Margarine Industry
masculinity
Mechanics
mill
mule
Nationalism
occupational segregation
Photography
Plaster Of Paris
Poor
Relationships
Ring Frames
Schools
Science
self-acting
Self-acting Mule
Self-actor Spinning
Semi-automatic Machines
Servants
skill construction research
spinning
Spinning Mill
Technology
Textiles
Trade union
Women Typists
Women War Workers
women's work
womens
Woollen Mills
workplace gender dynamics
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780748402601
- Weight: 657g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From the traditional stereotyped viewpoint, femininity and technology clash. This negative association between women and technology is one of the features of the sex-typing of jobs. Men are seen as technically competent and creative; women are seen as incompetent, suited only to work with machines that have been made and maintained by men. Men identify themselves with technology, and technology is identified with masculinity. The relationship between technology, technological change and women's work is, however, very complex.; Through studies examining technological change and the sexual division of labour, this book traces the origins of the segregation between women's work and men's work and sheds light on the complicated relationship between work and technology. Drawing on research from a number of European countries England, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, international contributors present detailed studies on women's work spanning two centuries. The chapters deal with a variety of work environments - office work, textiles and pottery, food production, civil service and cotton and wool industries.; This work rejects the idea that women were mainly employed as unskilled labour in the industrial revolutions, asserting that skill was required from the women, but that both the historical record about women's work and the social construction of the concept of "skill" have denied this.
Gertjan de Groot, Marlou Schrover
