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I think the thing that struck me most about this article was the first industrial advantage. While I know it was not uncommon for a woman to work during this time period I had always thought it was out of necessity. ''' The idea of opportunities for promotion suggests the idea of a career to me as opposed to a job. Do you think jobs with promotions indicate a shift towards careers and less focus on the domestic duties of marriage?''' Later in the piece the young factory operative explains how domestic servants don't make good wives. I suppose I am just wondering what kind of role marriage played when women went looking for work. -John Rowley | I think the thing that struck me most about this article was the first industrial advantage. While I know it was not uncommon for a woman to work during this time period I had always thought it was out of necessity. ''' The idea of opportunities for promotion suggests the idea of a career to me as opposed to a job. Do you think jobs with promotions indicate a shift towards careers and less focus on the domestic duties of marriage?''' Later in the piece the young factory operative explains how domestic servants don't make good wives. I suppose I am just wondering what kind of role marriage played when women went looking for work. -John Rowley | ||
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| + | I agree that the gaining a promotion does make this job seem more like a career. These women seemed content with working. I had also assumed that women that worked did it because they had to. I never thought that they found pride in it. I also agree with Megan that these women had a bigger part in the womens' rights movement than I had previously thought. I'm sure these women thought they had nothing in common with the middle class women working in the movement. Overall, I think they did play a part. It may not have been the part that middle class women would have wanted, but these women were out having careers at a time when women were supposed to stay at home. -Katelyn Lease | ||
== Isabel Eaton, 1899, research on black servants in Philadelphia == | == Isabel Eaton, 1899, research on black servants in Philadelphia == | ||
