This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
Michael Heller's most recent books of poetry are Telescope: Selected Poems, Dianoia, and Dans le signe, translations of his poetry in French. His libretto/poem for Constellations of Waking, a work based on the life of Walter Benjamin, was published in 2019. Among his many awards and honors are the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities Poet/Scholar Award and the Fund for Poetry. A collection of essays on his work, The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: Nomad Memory, was published in 2015.
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Introduction Chapter 1 Changing Worlds and Changing People: A Definition of the Late Victorian and Edwardian London Clerk Chapter 2 The Clerk, The Office and Work: Changing Horizons Chapter 3 Attitudes of the Clerk Towards Work Chapter 4 Work, Income, Promotion and Stability: The Late Victorian and Edwardian London Clerk Revisited Chapter 5 The Mechanization and Feminization of the Office, 1870-1914: Threats or Opportunities? Chapter 6 Education, Merit and Patronage: The London Clerical Market Chapter 7 Commercial Education and The Clerk Chapter 8 Clerical Trade Unions, Associations and Collective Organizations conclusion Conclusion
Introduction Chapter 1 Changing Worlds and Changing People: A Definition of the Late Victorian and Edwardian London Clerk Chapter 2 The Clerk, The Office and Work: Changing Horizons Chapter 3 Attitudes of the Clerk Towards Work Chapter 4 Work, Income, Promotion and Stability: The Late Victorian and Edwardian London Clerk Revisited Chapter 5 The Mechanization and Feminization of the Office, 1870-1914: Threats or Opportunities? Chapter 6 Education, Merit and Patronage: The London Clerical Market Chapter 7 Commercial Education and The Clerk Chapter 8 Clerical Trade Unions, Associations and Collective Organizations conclusion Conclusion
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