Donovan, Frances R. text Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press [c1929] eng The Saleslady explores one aspect of women's lives affected by mass production and the rise of chain department stores: the way women began to step out of the domestic sphere that had defined them in the nineteenth century to become store employees in the late 1920s. The study is impressionistic and descriptive, reporting the author's personal observations of salesladies' experiences such as getting a job, training, life in the store, recreation, marriage, and home life. The author, Frances R. Donovan, argues that a new type of woman is emerging, a woman of self- reliance and competence for whom marriage plays a less important role than in the past. The study itself represents a new trend in sociology in which occupational patterns are used to illuminate a society's social, economic, and moral order. "Songs of the saleslady": p. 243-261. Department stores--New York (State)--New York--Employees. Women--Employment--New York (State)--New York. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdclccn.29021188