Women Street Car Conductors And Ticket Agents Classic Reprint

Download or read book Women Street Car Conductors and Ticket Agents (Classic Reprint) written by United States Women's Bureau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Women Street Car Conductors and Ticket Agents Conspicuous among the occupations which were opened to women at the time of our entry into the war was the work of conductor on street and elevated railways and subways. While women had been employed as ticket agents by various companies for many years, the woman street-car conductor was a complete innovation, and about her employment in this capacity have centered much discussion and several bitter controversies. When they first appeared-early in 1918, women conductors, and to a less extent women ticket agents, were the recipients of much attention from the public and press who were curious and interested to watch the broadening of the field of industrial opportunity for women. While many women in many spheres were taking men's places in hitherto unaccustomed tasks, the conductor, by the nature of her work, was doing it so publicly, and her work was so open to inspection and comparison with that of her predecessor, that her success seemed particularly significant and likely to insure another permanently open field of work for women. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.