Mechanisation and the gender-based division of labour in the US cigar industry
研究了美国雪茄行业机械化如何降低手艺门槛、保留劳动强度，从而为女性创造就业机会，同时男性转向机械维修岗位，重塑了职业性别隔离的边界。
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.