Women Clerks in Wilhelmine Germany : Issues of Class and Gender (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Note on clerks' organizations; Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Clerks and clerking; 2. Women clerks at home and work; 3. An ambivalent estate: the ideologies and organizations of male clerks; 4. Contending strategies for women: bourgeois and socialist organization and the analysis of home and work; 5. Putting bourgeois feminism into practice: the founding of all-female clerks' associations; 6. Professionalization or feminism: alternatives facing female clerks' associations in the new century; 7. Class and gender in the socialist Central Alliance; 8. Jobs or marriage? Contradictory messages in socializing women clerks; 9. Campaigns for improved commercial training: the boundaries of the estate; 10. The needs of women versus the estate: white-collar insurance; Conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.