Topics

AdministrationViolenceSupervisionLeadership

Adult EducationCorp. Training and Continuing Ed.LiteracyTransformative Learning

Assessment & EvaluationProgram EvaluationAlternative AssessmentGradingStandardized Testing

Social ContextHistory of SchoolingPhilosophyUrban EducationEconomics and School-to-workRural EducationSociology of EducationWar and EducationPost-Industrial Education

CounselingSecondary SchoolsCollege Advising

CurriculumControlArtsSocial StudiesHealth and NutritionLanguage ArtsMathematicsPeace StudiesScience

DiversityRace and EthnicityAt-Risk StudentsSpecial NeedsGender and Sexuality

Early Childhood EducationPre-School and Child CareEarly Childhood Development

Higher EducationAdmissions and TuitionFacultyPolicyStudent and Community Life

International EducationComparative EducationEducational Development

LearningCognitionParental InfluenceEducational Psychology

PolicyReformCharters & VouchersHigh-Stakes TestingStandardsAthletes and AcademicsDropoutsIndependent SchoolsPhilanthropyPoliticsReligionTracking

Research MethodsQualitative MethodsSurvey ResearchExperimental ResearchLibrariesWriting for Publication

Teacher EducationProfessional DevelopmentSchools of EducationStudent Teaching

TeachingTeaching ProfessionSupply and DemandWorking Conditions

TechnologyTechnology in the ClassroomDistance LearningTechnology EducationPublishing and CommunicationOnline Publishing

IntersectionsPolicy and Teaching Practice

Discussion
My Experience Technology - Good for Students AND Teachers Fiddling with Indicators while using Toxic Tests Ode to Dewey Clearly Articulated Proposal--Thank You!
more >>

Announcements

Call for Book Chapters

Emerging Voices in Education: The Lisa and John McNichol Special Issue on Early Childhood Education

Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East

Call for Rethinking Higher Education Book Series (Springer)

make a post | more >>

Technology and Woman's Work

reviewed by Esther Westervelt - 1965

Title: Technology and Woman's Work
Author(s): Elizabeth F. Baker
Publisher: John Wiley, New York
ISBN: , Pages: , Year:
Search for book at Amazon.com

Harriet Martineau observed in 1836 that in America, "it is a boast that women do not labor . . . (yet) so many women are dependent on their exertions." Technology thrust American women into the labor force during our nation's infancy. As Baker notes, Alexander Hamilton hailed the factory employment of women, which, he observed, increased factory production without taking men from the fields, which could "continue with convenience, during the night, as well as through the day," and which rendered "women and children . . . more useful . . . than they would otherwise be." Yet Baker, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Barnard, is the first since Edith Abbott, whose Women in Industry was published in 1913, to explore the impact of industrial technology on women's labor force participation and, concomitantly, on the employment patterns of those women in the lower echelons of the labor force who "are dependent... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:

Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 66 Number 6, 1965, p. 563-563
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 2486, Date Accessed: 7/2/2020 7:26:51 PM

Purchase Reprint Rights for this article or review

Article Tools
Full Text in PDF Format Email this article Print this article Post a Comment

Related Discussion

Post a Comment \| Read All

About the Author
Esther Westervelt

Member Center
	Welcome! Sign-in Submit My Work TCR @ Your Library Book Reviews @ Your Library

In Print

This Month's Issue
Back Issues: