02592cam a22003613u 4500 75884 UtSlPG 20260610134745.0 m cr n 260607r20251913utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fi iso639-1 PT Wägner, Elin, 1882-1949 Norrtullsligan. Finnish Konttorityttöjen kohtaloita Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-04-16 Tuula Temonen "Konttorityttöjen kohtaloita" by Elin Wägner is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book centers on the lives of young, educated women working in offices in a rapidly modernizing, urban society. Through its narrative, the work explores issues of women's labor, social expectations, and the shifting structure of the bourgeois family as economic pressures push women into the workforce. Main characters include Elisabet and her circle of friends and colleagues, highlighting both their daily hardships and moments of camaraderie as they seek independence and meaning within the constraints of their working lives. The opening of the novel, including the translator's foreword, introduces the economic and societal changes that force middle-class women into office work, contrasting the relatively privileged daughters who supplement their families with "pin money" with those who must fully support themselves. The story begins in Stockholm with Elisabet reflecting on her unexpected path to becoming an office worker and her apprehension toward her new job. We are quickly immersed in her new communal living arrangement with other women, their routines, struggles with low pay, and conversations about relationships, work, and dreams of a better future. The narrative alternates between wry humor and sober realism, offering vivid portraits of daily life, ambitions, disappointments, and the sense of solidarity among the women. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Helsinki: Osuuskunta työläisnainen, 1913 Feminist fiction Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction Swedish fiction -- Translations into Finnish Women clerks -- Fiction Wuolijoki, Hella, 1886-1954 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75884 116609 116609