Before World War I, Southern women's participation in the workforce
consisted of black women's domestic labor and white working-class
women's industrial or manufacturing work, but after the war,
Southern women flooded business offices as stenographers, typists,
clerks, and bookkeepers. This book examines their experiences in
the clerical workforce, using both traditional labor sources and
exploring the cultural institutions that evolved from these women's
work-related milieu.
Businessmen throughout the South molded this workforce to meet
their needs using both labor-saving management techniques and
exploiting social mores to enforce gender boundaries that limited
women's workplace opportunities. This study traces the social and
economic implications of Southern women's increased participation
in clerical labor after World War I. While it increased the civic
activities of white middle-class southern women, it also confined
them to a routinized days work and limited venues of occupational
achievement. Through a varied network of business women's clubs and
organizations, women struggled with their new identities as workers
and attempted to integrate their work lives with their community
and family obligations.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 1995; revised with new
Introduction and Preface)
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