Making Newspapers Pay: Employment of Women's Skills in Newspaper Production

1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosslyn Reed
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Skill Analysis ◽  
Male Occupations ◽  
Definition Of

Technological change blurs the distinction between 'men's work' and 'women's work' and raises questions concerning the nature and definition of skill. This case study focuses on changes in the organization of work in the classified advertising telephone room following the introduction of computerized photocomposition into a Melbourne newspaper publishing organization. Account is taken of the design of the women's jobs both before and after technological change as well as the specific historically developed nature of both product and labour markets. The study demonstrates the extent to which women's skills are devalued when analysis focuses on the nature of changes in traditional male occupations like trades and crafts. When conventional approaches to skill analysis are used, a significant aspect of 'women's work'—emotional labour—is ignored. Consequently the lower value of traditional female occupations is reinforced. Some tentative suggestions are advanced for a reappraisal of the notion of skill.

scholarly journals How Men Valued Women's Work: Labour In and Outside the Home in Post-War Britain

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-468
Author(s):  
Laura King
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThis article examines men's valuing of women's work in the post-1945 period. It considers men's perspectives on female labour in and outside the home in the context of women's wartime work, the increase in married women working and the greater involvement of men in family life. I argue that men saw their wives’ and partners’ work as of lesser value than their own, in various ways, even if the money women's paid work brought in could significantly improve living standards. This was true even in the most caring, loving relationships. The article employs a broad definition of value, considering the social and cultural value of work alongside its economic outcomes. It places subjective accounts from interviews within a wider cultural and political context and contributes a new perspective to post-war British historiography by focusing on both paid labour and domestic work, and the negotiation of value between men and women.

scholarly journals Detection of earthflow dynamics using medium-resolution digital terrain models: Diachronic perspective of the Jovac earthflow, Southern Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-206
Author(s):  
Marko Milošević ◽  
Dragoljub Štrbac ◽  
Jelena Ćalić ◽  
Milan Radovanović
Keyword(s):  
Digital Terrain Models ◽  
Digital Terrain ◽  
Terrain Models ◽  
Landslide Volume ◽  
Medium Resolution ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Movement Mechanism ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Definition Of

The paper presents and discusses the landslide research procedure related to the topography before and after its occurrence, using the comparative analysis of two medium-resolution digital terrain models. The case study is the Jovac mega-landslide—the largest landslide to occur in Serbia in the last 100 years, active for three days in February 1977. The indicators used to determine the volume and movement mechanism were the spatial distribution of elevation differences within the two digital terrain models (DTM), and the analysis of geomorphological features before the landslide. The obtained elevation differences allowed the definition of the approximate landslide volume: 11.6 × 106 m3. All the data obtained indicate that the movement mechanism falls into the category of earthflow.

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