| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Class, culture
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Class, culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Performing independence : male clerks, bookkeepers, and stenographers from 1820 to 1870 -- Treasury girls and the masses : from degraded women workers to employees -- Stepping-stones and short ladders : men's faltering independence -- The male stenographers' solution : the language of professionalism -- Typewriter girls and lady stenographers : the challenges of respectability -- "My fondest hopes will have been realized" : independence, ambition, and the new woman -- Performances of professionalism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working class women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Working class women. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Stenographers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Stenographers. |
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Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Masculinity. |
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Femininity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Femininity. |
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Social classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Social classes. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1830-1920 |
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1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Srole, Carole, 1948- Transcribing class and gender. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009018640 |
| ISBN |
9780472026647 (electronic book) |
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047202664X (electronic book) |
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9780472070558 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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047207055X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780472050550 |
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0472050559 |
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