Disillusionment or New Opportunities: The Changing Nature of Work in Offices, Glasgow 1880-1914 (Modern Economic and Social History Series) [Hardcover]

R. Guerriero Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1998 | ISBN-10: 1840142766 | ISBN-13: 978-1840142761

In Britain at the turn of the century the nature of office work was changing, in line with large-scale social and economic developments. These included the increasing size and influence of the service sector of the economy, the growing use of bureaucratic procedures in administrative organizations, the changing conceptions of success for individuals in a maturing industrial economy and the creation of an entirely new field of women's work Taking for its location Glasgow, the "second city of the British Empire", this book explores the physical and technological changes which occurred in the growing bureaucracies of big-business and of government as well as in the small and mid-size business of the city. The study of these changes provides a context within which to set the complementary experiences of the men and women who chose to seek a living in the wide array of constantly changing office jobs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 313 pages
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840142766
• ISBN-13: 978-1840142761
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,045,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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