Michael Heller

London Clerical Workers, 1880-1914 (eBook, PDF)

Development of the Labour Market

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317323716
• Artikelnr.: 43419966

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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