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I found it interesting in the document of “Female Perspective on the Great migration” that over 500,000 blacks left the south between 1916 and 1919, then over a million by the 1920’s. This movement was called the “push and pull aspects of migration.” A lot of blacks pushed out of the South because there weren’t any new advancements and the pull was the new opportunities that lied ahead. With the African American women moving up to the North for work, how much did that really affect the jobs of immigrant women? Was it a huge effect or a little because immigrants usually worked for lower wage? | I found it interesting in the document of “Female Perspective on the Great migration” that over 500,000 blacks left the south between 1916 and 1919, then over a million by the 1920’s. This movement was called the “push and pull aspects of migration.” A lot of blacks pushed out of the South because there weren’t any new advancements and the pull was the new opportunities that lied ahead. With the African American women moving up to the North for work, how much did that really affect the jobs of immigrant women? Was it a huge effect or a little because immigrants usually worked for lower wage? | ||
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| + | A couple of the accounts of domestic servitude in Modern American Women talk about having only “oral contracts.” Why is this? I thought by the late 19th Century people would hold written contracts. When I first read that I thought that oral contracts might be a positive thing for the servants because they could walk away from them with out series legal repercussions, but the more I think about it… maybe an oral contract is worse? In an oral contract the terms can change whenever the employer wants and the servant can’t really just walk away from it because they don’t have the money and resource to go anywhere else. Perhaps oral contracts were just another way to keep lower class (often black) women oppressed. – Cat Debelius | ||
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| + | To what extent was the North actually the “promise land” that poor southern black women thought it to be? It seems that domestic service was widespread, form South to North. – Cat Debelius | ||
