London Clerical Workers, 1880-1914 : Development of the Labour Market.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1 Changing Worlds and Changing People: A Definition of the Late Victorian and Edwardian London Clerk -- 2 The Clerk, the Office and Work: Changing Horizons -- 3 Attitudes of the Clerk towards Work -- 4 Work, Income, Promotion and Stability: The Late Victorian and Edwardian London Clerk Revisited -- 5 The Mechanization and Feminization of the Office, 1870-1914: Threats or Opportunities? -- 6 Education, Merit and Patronage: The London Clerical Market -- 7 Commercial Education and the Clerk -- 8 Clerical Trade Unions, Associations and Collective Organizations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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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