Jobs for the girls : how we set out to work in the typewriter age
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda, 1962-2024
Books, Manuscripts
Drawn from real life, from interviews with women from all sections of society who have ever had a job, this book is a portrait of British women's working lives from 1950, through cardigans and pearls, via mini-skirts and bottom-pinching, to shoulder pads and the ping of the first emails (early 1990s), never forgetting overalls, aprons and uniforms. Graham conveys the full range of experience: to convey the flavour and atmosphere of workplaces in all their character: the jollities as well as the drudgeries, the good men as well as the vile ones, the nasty women as well as the heroines, the office crushes and romances, the daily drudgery, the lunch hours, the parties, the great piles of paper all over the place, the family-feel of workplaces, the daily burden of trying to run a household and family as well.
Jobs for the girls : how we set out to work in the typewriter age / Ysenda Maxtone Graham.
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda, 1962-, author
London : Abacus, 2024.
320 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
9780349144412 (pbk)
331.4094109045331.40941 MAX331.40941
English
3843893