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| + | Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 being used today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031202154.html -- Erin Sanderson | ||
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==The Despair of Unemployed Women, Meridel LeSueur== | ==The Despair of Unemployed Women, Meridel LeSueur== | ||
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I also thought it was interesting that the black woman's domestic service would be labeled a "slave market." Reading about the life of those women and what they did for work makes me better understand why it was termed that. They stand outside waiting for someone(presumably a white person) to come hire them, they do back-breaking work, and get paid very little. I bet they were probably at least thankful to have any type of job though to earn some money during the depression for their family. -Amy Van Ness | I also thought it was interesting that the black woman's domestic service would be labeled a "slave market." Reading about the life of those women and what they did for work makes me better understand why it was termed that. They stand outside waiting for someone(presumably a white person) to come hire them, they do back-breaking work, and get paid very little. I bet they were probably at least thankful to have any type of job though to earn some money during the depression for their family. -Amy Van Ness | ||
| − | The parallel to these open air markets are certainly the day laborers who sit at 7-11 and in other shopping centers 7 days a week. The one by my house consistently has at least 4 or 5 and as many as 20-30 there for at least 6 hours a day, offering all sorts of labor for cheap. The reality is that a percentage of these men don't have their papers, | + | The parallel to these open air markets are certainly the day laborers who sit at 7-11 and in other shopping centers 7 days a week. The one by my house consistently has at least 4 or 5 and as many as 20-30 there for at least 6 hours a day, offering all sorts of labor for cheap. The reality is that a percentage of these men don't have their papers to get other jobs, but many are just supplementing their normal income. And in fact, in relation to the source, it sounds like that's essentially what these women were offering. It doesn't sound like they were looking to get hired as domestic servants, but to do odd jobs. In any sort of economically depressed time, it is natural to assume that service industries will be hurt first, where your income depends on the financial security of your employer (or employers). -Erin B. |
==Dorothy Dunbar Bromley Comments on Birth Control and the Depression, 1934== | ==Dorothy Dunbar Bromley Comments on Birth Control and the Depression, 1934== | ||
