The Women Who Got America Talking: Early Telephone Operators, 1878-1922
Author:   Kerry Segrave
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:  

9781476669045


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 August 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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The Women Who Got America Talking: Early Telephone Operators, 1878-1922


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Author:   Kerry Segrave
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781476669045


ISBN 10:   147666904
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   11 August 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface delete Introduction delete 1. In the Beginning, Men vs. Women 2. The Hello Girl to 1900 3. The Operator, 1901–1922 4. Discipline 5. Health and Swearing and Love and Harassment 6. Strikes and Labor Unions 7. Goodbye to the Hello Girl Chapter Notes delete Bibliography delete Index delete

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"""A great resource...you will come away with a very real sense of the challenges these young women faced in the workplace and how they overcame those challenges.""--FGS Forum."


A great resource...you will come away with a very real sense of the challenges these young women faced in the workplace and how they overcame those challenges. --FGS Forum.


Author Information

Cultural historian Kerry Segrave is the author of dozens of books on such diverse topics as drive-in theaters, ticket-scalping, lie detectors, jukeboxes, smoking and shoplifting. He lives in British Columbia.

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