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Secretarial Work and Technological Change
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Alonzo, Philippe Liaroutzos, Olivier |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Secretarial work, done exclusively by women, is indicative of the apparently irremediable division of labour between men and women in France. Changes in the content of secretarial work itself, so trying for the adaptive abilities of a heterogeneous group of women. The authors will take a look at the difficulties encountered by attempts to achieve recognition of the greater skills involved in secretarial work, as well as the representations that justify, a posteriori, its being exclusively feminine. From the start, analysis of this modernisation stressed the interpersonal dimensions of secretarial work, describing them as inseparable from its technical aspects, and an essential component of the profession. The position of executive secretarial appears as the only prospect, both desired and distant. Technological change cuts down on some secretarial duties, but it also obliges secretaries to be inventive, to develop a capacity to imagine new combinations among technique, organisation and product, and thus gives them more elbowroom within the company. Book Name: The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315202815-12&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 135 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| Starting Page | 124 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315202815-12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2018-02-05 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work History and Philosophy of Science Adaptive Technological Change Secretarial Work Stressed Changes Executive Secretarial |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
