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'''While Lucy Maynard Salmon discusses all the reasons why domestic work is not ideal, I thought of two reasons why it may be preferred over factory work. In Helen Campbell's piece, she argues that if ever a position open up, it would quickly get filled and hundreds and thousands of women were in line for factory work. However, from Salmon's piece, there doesn't seem to be many women who would pick domestic jobs over factory. This would ensure for a longer job position'''. Granted, it isn't the best and many workers were not looking for permanent positions, it did provide stability. '''Secondly, the domestic job (in regards to Salmon's piece)offered a less dangerous work environment.''' According to Campbell's writing, some factory women picked diseases and got really sick. This is less likely than in the domestic work. --Aqsa Z. | '''While Lucy Maynard Salmon discusses all the reasons why domestic work is not ideal, I thought of two reasons why it may be preferred over factory work. In Helen Campbell's piece, she argues that if ever a position open up, it would quickly get filled and hundreds and thousands of women were in line for factory work. However, from Salmon's piece, there doesn't seem to be many women who would pick domestic jobs over factory. This would ensure for a longer job position'''. Granted, it isn't the best and many workers were not looking for permanent positions, it did provide stability. '''Secondly, the domestic job (in regards to Salmon's piece)offered a less dangerous work environment.''' According to Campbell's writing, some factory women picked diseases and got really sick. This is less likely than in the domestic work. --Aqsa Z. | ||
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| + | What I found to be very interesting about Lucy Maynard Salmon's writing were the footnotes, especially the second set. Were foreign women really seen as not knowing "what neatness means" (297)? Why did the the social status of domestic girls fall when the Chinese started working in homes as domestic servants? "Before the introduction of Chinese labor a young girl never lost social caste by doing housework; but since this element came, household service as an occupation has fallen in social scale." (297)Was this fall because these white women were lowered to the same level as these immigrants who were taking over the position? --Jennifer S. | ||
== Isabel Eaton, 1899, research on black servants in Philadelphia == | == Isabel Eaton, 1899, research on black servants in Philadelphia == | ||
