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Mechanisation and the Gender-Based Division of Labour in the U.S. Cigar Industry

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This paper presents a historical explanation for the changes in occupational sex segregation in the U.S. cigar industry. Mechanization which diminished craft skill barriers while retaining the labor intensity and limited technical interdependence of production created employment opportunities for women. At the same time, the boundaries of occupational sex segregation were redrawn as men left production jobs and remained in the industry only as mechanics and machine fixers. This paper has implications for the contemporary debate regarding the relationship between production technology and employment structure: namely that technological change which reduces craft skill within the context of massed, batch processing allows employers to shift work to less skilled, low wage labor. Copyright 1990 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Prus, Mark J, 1990. "Mechanisation and the Gender-Based Division of Labour in the U.S. Cigar Industry," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 14(1), pages 63-79, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:14:y:1990:i:1:p:63-79
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    1. Shen, Kailing, 2021. "Gender Discrimination," IZA Discussion Papers 14897, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Karlsson, Tobias & Stanfors, Maria, 2016. "To be or not to be? Risk attitudes and gender differences in union membership," Lund Papers in Economic History 144, Lund University, Department of Economic History.
    3. Muñoz, Lina Gálvez, 2000. "Género y cambio tecnológico: Rentabilidad económica y política del proceso de industrialización del monopolio de tabacos en España (1887–1945)," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 18(1), pages 11-45, March.
    4. Tim Leunig & Maria Stanfors, 2010. "Piece-rates and prosperity: evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry," Working Papers 10003, Economic History Society.

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