Desk和Derrick:女性石油工业俱乐部设想了石油的技术官僚未来

IF 0.3 Q4 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR
Sarah Stanford-McIntyre
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摘要:本文通过揭露石油行业女性员工俱乐部Desk and Derrick的隐秘历史,强调文书工作和后勤人员对石油行业发展的重要性。在这样做的过程中,它表明,尽管石油行业的神话是个体发明家和幸运的冒险者,但在20世纪中期的几十年里,石油与其他大型科学和工程企业非常相似。在整个20世纪50年代和60年代,石油业的白领和行政工作迅速增加。在这个行业和其他行业一样,女性是石油行业技术发展和劳工冲突的基础。Desk and Derrick’s是职业女性的避风港,在一个对女性员工极度敌视的行业中,它提供社区、培训和领导机会。扶轮社提供许多外展及教育活动,包括研讨会、工作坊、实地考察及会议。这些事件展示了女性的能力和技术知识,与工会的嘲笑和公司的解雇相冲突。该俱乐部对科学教育和资格认证的强调,代表了在技术日益复杂的职业世界中,女性的加入。然而,根深蒂固的职场性别歧视和工会对改变劳动结构的敌意限制了会员的机会。最终,Desk和Derrick的中产阶级愿望将俱乐部与行业重塑努力联系起来,并帮助支持行业自动化和工会破坏。Desk和Derrick对行业工程师和科学专业人士进行了评估,传播了通过技术实现繁荣的说法,同时整个行业都在努力修复石油公司贪婪、浪费和剥削的名声。反过来,20世纪中叶的石油公司将Desk和Derrick推广为一种方便、草根的传播信息的方式。
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Desk and Derrick: The Women's Petroleum Industry Club That Envisioned Oil's Technocratic Future
Abstract:This article uncovers the hidden history of Desk and Derrick, a female-only petroleum industry employees' club, to emphasize the importance of clerical work and support staff to oil industry development. In doing so, it demonstrates that despite the oil industry's mythology of individual inventors and lucky wildcatters, oil was remarkably similar to other large-scale scientific and engineering enterprises during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, oil's white-collar and administrative jobs expanded rapidly. And in this industry as in others, women were fundamental to oil industry technological development and labor conflicts. Desk and Derrick's was a haven for working women, providing community, training, and leadership opportunities in an industry deeply hostile to female employees. The club provided numerous outreach and educational campaigns included seminars, workshops, fieldtrips, and conventions. These events showcased female competence and technical knowledge, clashing with union derision and corporate dismissal. The club's vocal emphasis on scientific education and credentialization represented a bid for female inclusion within an increasingly technically complex professional world. However, entrenched workplace sexism and union hostility to changing labor structures limited member opportunities. Ultimately, Desk and Derrick's middle-class aspirations allied the club with industry rebranding efforts and helped support industry automation and union-busting. Desk and Derrick valorized industry engineers and scientific professionals, spreading narratives of prosperity through technology that coincided with industry-wide efforts to repair oil companies' reputations as greedy, wasteful, and exploitative. In turn, midcentury oil companies promoted Desk and Derrick as a convenient, grassroots way to spread their message.
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