Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service: Middle-Class Workers in Victorian America
"The author's consideration of both male and female workers together provides a unique and valuable perspective on the history of white collar labor and late Victorian society.."--Journal of Social History"Fascinating....A superb example of a comparative study of the experiences and values of men and women.  It is a model history of male and female interaction.  It is not only good women's history, labor history, and men's history, but it makes good History."--Reviews in American History"A perceptive and engaging case study....Deserves a wide audience among students of large-scale organizations and should be required reading for anyone attempting to refine the 'organizational synthesis' of the American past."--Business History Review"A carefully documented, well-organized, original and convincing book....She has brilliantly portrayed late-nineteenth-century workers in the Washington offices of the Treasury and Interior departments."--The Historian"Full, intelligent, and...on the cutting edge of current interest."--Michael H. Frisch,State University of New York at Buffalo