City Women: Work, Jobs, Occupations, Careers, Vol. 1

'œIn the first volume of City Women, Lopata, Miller, and Barnewolt have provided an extensive bibliography that covers the classic literature of work and occupations, and also includes the range of new feminist scholarship in the field up to the early 1980s. Volume I also includes a history of women's work and chapter-length discussions of service workers, blue-collar workers, clerical workers, sales workers, homemakers, managers, proprietors and officials, professionals, technicians, and related workers. The work examines the available research and notes changes in women's participation in each of these occupational areas. ...[The volume] include[s] a good mix of quantitative and qualitative data. ... Academic libraries with programs in sociology, urban studies, women's studies, business, and history will wish to have both volumes available to students.'' ChoiceLopata, Helena Z. is the author of 'City Women: Work, Jobs, Occupations, Careers, Vol. 1' with ISBN 9780275912185 and ISBN 0275912183.