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I found the Lowell community of women based on "mutual dependence" interesting. Women really created their own community, covered shifts for each other and banded together to strike and improve their conditions. In response to Ashley's "did this happen other places" I think it was probably unique to factories. Where else in this time period were women only interacting with one another, no men and had to rely on each other to survive? In a sense these women were their own family.--Amanda | I found the Lowell community of women based on "mutual dependence" interesting. Women really created their own community, covered shifts for each other and banded together to strike and improve their conditions. In response to Ashley's "did this happen other places" I think it was probably unique to factories. Where else in this time period were women only interacting with one another, no men and had to rely on each other to survive? In a sense these women were their own family.--Amanda | ||
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| + | I think that an important thing to remember about these women is that they were pretty young. Dublin says that over 80 percent of the female workforce was between 15 and 30. It seems like working in a factory was something the women did for a little while, after which they probably went home, got married and had some babies. I think that these women were in a pretty good position to strike, because they did not have dependents to support, and they had homes to go back to if they lost their jobs. Of course I applaud them for standing up to their exploitative employers, but I think that it is important to note that most of them had safety nets in place, which makes striking a lot easier. -- Rebecca | ||
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