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Home > The Working World > Jobs & Careers > Clerical Jobs
- Reporters and Shorthand Writers
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- Women as Government Clerks
(Peterson's, 1866)
- The City Clerk, and What May Be Done for Him
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1875)
- Suggestions on ways to provide decent housing and meals for city clerks - who generally cannot afford either.
- Lady Clerks in the Post Office Savings Bank
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1876)
- "A staff of female clerks has lately been appointed at the Post Office Savings Bank, and between sixty and seventy young ladies are now employed there."
- Barristers' Clerks
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877)
- On Being a Clerk in a Bank
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877)
- Clerkships in the Customs
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1878)
- How to become a customs clerk.
- How to Obtain a Clerkship in the Railway Service
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1879)
- Female Clerks and Book-keepers
(Girl's Own Paper, 1880)
- By 1871 a census found 572 female clerks and book-keepers in London alone -- and "no one can raise any objection on the score of its being unfeminine."
- Lady Clerks in the City, by Mercy Grogan
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1881)
- Female Clerkships in the Post Office
(Girl's Own Paper, 1883)
- Interesting overview on the evolution of jobs for women in the Post Office, along with current requirements, training, and salaries.
- Clerkships, by Alice King
(Girl's Own Paper, 1884)
- On qualifications for clerkships - plus tips on how to remain a good, pure Christian woman even if one must work!
- Suggestions for Stenographers, by Nellie M. Hanby (Ladies' Home Journal, 1892)
- An Extinct Industry [Law Copying] (Girl's Own Paper, 1895)
- It's always the same story: New technology makes old jobs obsolete. Like this new-fangled invention, the typewriter...
- Something About Type-writing and Typists (Girl's Own Paper, 1895)
- And now a look at the working life of the professional typist, with this same newfangled device...
- Women Clerkships in the Civil Service
(Girl's Own Paper, 1901)
- Shorthand and Typewriting Clerks
(Girl's Own Paper, 1902)
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