From angel to office worker : middle-class identity and female consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950 / Susie S. Porter.

By:

Porter, Susie S, 1965- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781496206497

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HD6101 .F766 2018

Online resources:

Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password

Available additional physical forms:

Subject: "In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolutionand jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Workerexamines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women's movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married and unmarried. Office workers also developed a critique of gender inequality and sexual exploitation both within and outside the workplace. From Angel to Office Workeris a major contribution to modern Mexican history as historians begin to ask new questions about the relationships between labor, politics, and the cultural and public spheres."-- Subject: "To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment"--

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HD6101 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1033673237

Browsing G. Allen Fleece Library shelves, Shelving location: ONLINE, Collection: Non-fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	HD6099 Women and work /editors, Richard P. Chaykowski and Lisa M. Powell.	HD6099 Beyond caring labour to provisioning workSheila M. Neysmith ... [and others.	HD6100.6 Breadwinning daughters : young working women in a depression-era city, 1929-1939 /	HD6101 From angel to office worker : middle-class identity and female consciousness in Mexico, 1890-1950 /	HD6135 Key Issues in Women's Work Female Diversity and the Polarisation of Women's Employment.	HD6136 From spinster to career woman : middle-class women and work in Victorian England /	HD6197 .658 2009 Crafting Selves Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace.	Next

Includes bibliographies and index.

"In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolutionand jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Workerexamines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment. At the heart of the women's movement was a labor movement led by secretaries and office workers whose demands included respect for seniority, equal pay for equal work, and resources to support working mothers, both married and unmarried. Office workers also developed a critique of gender inequality and sexual exploitation both within and outside the workplace. From Angel to Office Workeris a major contribution to modern Mexican history as historians begin to ask new questions about the relationships between labor, politics, and the cultural and public spheres."--

"To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment"--

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations List of Graphs and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. "Women of the Middle Class, More Than Others, Need to Work" 2. Office Work and Commercial Education during the 1920s 3. Writing and Activism in 1920s Mexico City 4. Women at Work in Government Offices in 1930s Mexico City 5. Commercial Education and Writing during the 1930s 6. Office Workers Organize during the 1930s 7. Women, Work, and Middle-Class Identity during the 1940s Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.