Beyond the Typewriter

Sharon Hartman Strom is a professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Fortune, Fame and Desire: Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century and Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform.

"A richly textured and interesting book. . . . Enriches our understanding of the history of the labor force in general and office work in particular." -- American Historical Review"Strom shows, better than any other labor historian has, how class, age, and marital status divided women in the office."--Women's Review of Books "Using massive quantitative and qualitative data, the author thoroughly examines the social conditions, prevailing ideologies, and individual responses involved. . . . Well recommended." -- Choice