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‘Miss Remington’ Goes to Work: Gender, Space and Technology at the Dawn of the Information Age
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‘Miss Remington’ Goes to Work: Gender, Space and Technology at the Dawn of the Information Age
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| Abstract |
At the end of the nineteenth century, the financial services sector underwent a technological revolution with the invention of the typewriter, dictaphone and hollerith machine. At the same time, the gender of labour within this sector was also changing, such that by 1925 most work taking place in white-collar offices was preformed by women. Focusing on early twentieth-century Montreal, the author examines how technology and social relations shaped one another at the level of the body, the workplace and with broader networks of branch banking. She argues that the financial services sector worked to create a system in which men flowed through and women functioned as fixed points.
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The Professional Geographer
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Vol. 56
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no. 2
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201-212
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May 2004
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en
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Boyer, Laura Kate. “‘Miss Remington’ Goes to Work: Gender, Space and Technology at the Dawn of the Information Age.” The Professional Geographer Vol. 56, no. 2 (May 2004): 201–212.
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