City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920

by Jerome P. Bjelopera

Below the middle class managers and professionals yet above the skilled blue-collar workers, sales and office workers occupied an intermediate position in urban America's social structure as the nation industrialized. Jerome P. Bjelopera traces the shifting occupational structures and work choices that facilitated the emergence of a white-collar workforce. His fascinating portrait reveals the lives led by Philadelphia's male and female clerks,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252072278
• ISBN13: 9780252072277
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"