Author: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Condition of Female Labor in the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Girls of the Department Store
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Condition of Female Labor in the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
The Shop Girls
Author: Ellee SeymourPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0751554979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth's department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building - surrounded by luxurious dresses and beautiful accessories - the hardships of their own lives are temporarily forgotten. Serving a variety of curious customers, from glamorous gypsy queens to genuine royalty and stuffy academics to the city's fashionable elite, the store is a place where these young women can forge successful careers, under the ever-watchful eye of flamboyant owner Mr Heyworth. Set against the backdrop of the closing years of the Second World War, and moving into the 1950s, The Shop Girls perfectly captures the camaraderie and friendship of four ambitious young women working together in a store that offered them an escape from the drudgery of their wartime childhoods. Each of the girls' stories will be individually published from July 2014 in fortnightly serialised ebooks, leading up to the release of the complete edition (with bonus material) in September.
Everybody's Magazine
Author: Department-store Education
Author: Helen Rich NortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sales personnel
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Working Girls in the West
Author: Lindsey McMasterPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858257
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
As the twentieth century got under way in Canada, young wage-earning women � "working girls" � embodied all that was unnerving and unnatural about modern times: the disintegration of the family, the independence of women, and the unwholesomeness of city life. Long after eastern Canada was considered settled and urbanized, the West continued to be represented as a frontier where the idea of the region as a society in the making added resonance to the idea of the working girl as social pioneer. Using an innovative interpretive approach that centres on literary representation, Lindsey McMaster heightens our understanding of a figure that fired the imagination of writers and observers.
Children's Bureau Publication
Author: United States. Children's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Bureau Publication
Author: Poor Girls
Author: Clare WhitfieldPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1837930848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
'Funny, fast-paced and dark... with dialogue that absolutely crackles' ELODIE HARPER 'A brave, bold novel' ARAMINTA HALL Men steal everything. Now we want our share. 1922. Twenty-four-year-old Eleanor Mackridge is horrified by the future mapped out for her – to serve the upper classes or find a husband. During the war, she found freedom in joining the workforce at home, but now women are being put back in their place. Until Eleanor crosses paths with a member of the notorious female-led gang the Forty Elephants: bold women who wear diamonds and fur, drink champagne and gin, who take what they want without asking. Now, she sees a new future for herself: she can serve, marry – or steal. After all, men will only let you down. Diamonds are forever. In Poor Girls, Clare Whitfield exposes the criminal underbelly of 1920s London – but this isn't a morality tale, it's an adventure for the willingly wicked. 'Memorable, outrageous and full of heart. Loved it – every time I put it down I couldn't wait to pick it up again.' ELENI KYRIACOU 'Wonderfully roguish characters, and great period detail. Really enjoyable.' IAN MOORE 'A richly vivid and picaresque masterwork, Poor Girls is by turns humorous, horrifying and humane.' TOM MEAD 'A compulsive read... A real page turner.' CAITLIN DAVIES Join the growing fans of the Forty Elephants... 'Clare Whitfield's best book to date.' Reader Review 'What a ride, this book is so much fun.' Reader Review 'Will make you laugh but also shed a tear.' Reader Review 'I highly recommend it to anyone drawn to tales of resilience, ambition, and rebellion.' Reader Review 'Such a brilliant book, everyone should read it!' Reader Review 'Glamorous and uncompromising.' Reader review
Vassar Quarterly
Author: What Eight Million Women Want
Author: Rheta Childe DorrPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465526552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description