Difference between revisions of "325--2011--Week 3 Questions/Comments"
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The need for female labor allowed the women to stay at home and still be paid by the paper mills. This kind of phenomenon is completely absent from modern factories. Perhaps the married women took off more often, because their husbands objected to them working. Another theory could be that the married women were expected to be home more often, so they left for months at a time to take care of household things. For example, the piece talks about a sick friend, but maternity leave and sick children could also be to blame. | The need for female labor allowed the women to stay at home and still be paid by the paper mills. This kind of phenomenon is completely absent from modern factories. Perhaps the married women took off more often, because their husbands objected to them working. Another theory could be that the married women were expected to be home more often, so they left for months at a time to take care of household things. For example, the piece talks about a sick friend, but maternity leave and sick children could also be to blame. | ||
| − | There may have been more motivations for the Lake Company to control the water levels then just for the mills in Massachusetts. By flooding the smaller mills and | + | There may have been more motivations for the Lake Company to control the water levels then just for the mills in Massachusetts. By flooding the smaller mills and depleting them of water at different times, they destroy the small competition for labor and for textiles. There were few if any anti-trust laws at this time to prevent the mills in Massachusetts from eliminating all competition. Also, by being a separate corporation, it does not appear that the large Lowell mills are behind it. They may not have been, but there is more evidence to suggest that they were. |
~~Kyle Allwine | ~~Kyle Allwine | ||
