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I found this to be a very interesting article. While reading it, I was struck by the contradiction of exploitation and liberation which Dublin addresses. The fact that I really noticed was that women were empowered by their employment to protest against their exploitation at the job which had liberated them initially. The mills seem to represent women's independence but also their susceptibility. They were able to leave their homes and farms to make their own living but by doing so they exposed themselves to another means of being put beneath men. It seems that at the heart of their protesting was the issues of the dignity of women. --Sarah Gardner | I found this to be a very interesting article. While reading it, I was struck by the contradiction of exploitation and liberation which Dublin addresses. The fact that I really noticed was that women were empowered by their employment to protest against their exploitation at the job which had liberated them initially. The mills seem to represent women's independence but also their susceptibility. They were able to leave their homes and farms to make their own living but by doing so they exposed themselves to another means of being put beneath men. It seems that at the heart of their protesting was the issues of the dignity of women. --Sarah Gardner | ||
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| + | I also seem to recall that working in the mills was often very harmful to the health of women as they were stuck in a closed room with little ventilation for 10 hours or more everyday and then went home to sleep in very close quarters. However, health is never really addressed in this issue. Does anyone know if there really were a lot of negative health affects caused by working in this mills? If so, why were they not included in their grievances along with the decreased wages? I was also trying to ascertain what the average "career" of a mill woman was. Due to the huge number of women in training, it would seem that there must have been a rather high turnover rate. --Sarah Gardner | ||
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