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Informationen zum Autor Gertjan de Groot, Marlou Schrover Klappentext Traces the origins of the segregation between women's and men's work in the 19th and 20th century. It rejects the idea that women were mainly employed as unskilled labour, asserting that women's skills were required but that historical records and social definitions of skill have denied this. Zusammenfassung Traces the origins of the segregation between women's and men's work in the 19th and 20th century. It rejects the idea that women were mainly employed as unskilled labour, asserting that women's skills were required but that historical records and social definitions of "skill" have denied this. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 General Introduction, Gertjan de Groot, Marlou Schrover; Chapter 2 Frames of Reference: Skill, Gender and New Technology in the Hosiery Industry, Harriet Bradley; Chapter 3 The Creation of a Gendered Division of Labour in the Danish Textile Industry, Marianne Rostgård; Chapter 4 Foreign Technology and the Gender Division of Labour in a Dutch Cotton Spinning Mill, Gertjan de Groot; Chapter 5 ‘The Mysteries of the Typewriter’: Technology and Gender in the British Civil Service, 1870–1914, Meta Zimmeck; Chapter 6 ‘A Revolution in the Workplace’? Women’s Work in Munitions Factories and Technological Change 1914–1918, Deborah Thom; Chapter 7 Gender and Technological Change in the North Staffordshire Pottery Industry, Jacqueline Sarsby; Chapter 8 Periodization and the Engendering of Technology: The Pottery of Gustavsberg, Sweden, 1880–1980, Ulla Wikander; Chapter 9 Creating Gender: Technology and Femininity in the Swedish Dairy Industry, Lena Sommestad; Chapter 10 Cooking up Women’s Work: Women Workers in the Dutch Food Industries 1889–1960, Marlou Schrover;
