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I found the emphasis on economic security and the role of their “Yankee heritage” as interesting driving factors for this particular group of women to protest working conditions and wages. Dublin argues that these women were capable of returning to the farm to work and therefore did not necessarily have to completely depend upon the work at the mill. He notes that during times of economic depressions that protesting diminished or ceased completely, thus marking a relationship between economic security and their job at the mills. I think it also points to a trend of using immigrant workers or workers from poorer families later on who would be dependent upon their wages from the mill and consequently be less likely to strike. I also found it interesting that Dublin noted their “Yankee heritage” and revolutionary rhetoric as driving forces for an idea that these women deserved certain rights. I wonder if we would be able to find non-Yankee women of this time that felt and demanded what they deemed were their rights in the mills. – Mary Beth | I found the emphasis on economic security and the role of their “Yankee heritage” as interesting driving factors for this particular group of women to protest working conditions and wages. Dublin argues that these women were capable of returning to the farm to work and therefore did not necessarily have to completely depend upon the work at the mill. He notes that during times of economic depressions that protesting diminished or ceased completely, thus marking a relationship between economic security and their job at the mills. I think it also points to a trend of using immigrant workers or workers from poorer families later on who would be dependent upon their wages from the mill and consequently be less likely to strike. I also found it interesting that Dublin noted their “Yankee heritage” and revolutionary rhetoric as driving forces for an idea that these women deserved certain rights. I wonder if we would be able to find non-Yankee women of this time that felt and demanded what they deemed were their rights in the mills. – Mary Beth | ||
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| + | It was refreshing to read an article about women that seemed to be more empowering, as opposed to the rest of the stuff that seemed to really be showing the unfortunate plight of women at the time. What struck me as most impressive throughout the Dublin reading was the fact that the women in the piece were all so determined to stick up for each other, down to picking up the slack when one of their own was sick or had to miss work. In today's times, I feel like it's rare to hear of such camaraderie in the work force, regardless of gender. -Cash Nelson | ||
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It was neat to look at the different ways that people tried to create a better life for themselves in very different ways. Some families who could manage to send their daughters to the mills did so, and others used newly innovative tools to be able to produce enough to turn a profit on their farms. All of this was so that they could afford to purchase goods in what was quickly becoming a highly competitive, capitalistic world. -Lacey | It was neat to look at the different ways that people tried to create a better life for themselves in very different ways. Some families who could manage to send their daughters to the mills did so, and others used newly innovative tools to be able to produce enough to turn a profit on their farms. All of this was so that they could afford to purchase goods in what was quickly becoming a highly competitive, capitalistic world. -Lacey | ||
