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'''Children'''  It just struck home again as to how vital children were to the working class economy.  They were errand-runners, scavengers, domestic workers and wage earners.  Without them, many working class families would not have, or did not, survive in urban areas like New York.  If the mother was able to stay home children were emissaries to the outside world, running errands to buy things, or scavenging them to save their family a few pennies, perhaps they were even sent outside the home to earn money for the family.  And yet, the middle class and upper class residents of the city did not deign to see that without these children the working class family would have collapsed and their lives of relative comfort and security would not have been possible.  Even working class families were not always able to appreciate their children because they did not meet their standards of production, thus the House of Refuge.  There are an incredible number of dynamics that affect the lives of children in such a place, so many that it seems a number of them were lost to the people who were there for the experience. -Lacey
 
'''Children'''  It just struck home again as to how vital children were to the working class economy.  They were errand-runners, scavengers, domestic workers and wage earners.  Without them, many working class families would not have, or did not, survive in urban areas like New York.  If the mother was able to stay home children were emissaries to the outside world, running errands to buy things, or scavenging them to save their family a few pennies, perhaps they were even sent outside the home to earn money for the family.  And yet, the middle class and upper class residents of the city did not deign to see that without these children the working class family would have collapsed and their lives of relative comfort and security would not have been possible.  Even working class families were not always able to appreciate their children because they did not meet their standards of production, thus the House of Refuge.  There are an incredible number of dynamics that affect the lives of children in such a place, so many that it seems a number of them were lost to the people who were there for the experience. -Lacey
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It was interesting to see how child labor was viewed and used in different areas. The west and rural areas needed very differnt help then that of the urban city factory worker. An interesting point to agree with Kari W. is that older children would take care of or raise the siblings so the mother could work more. Today similar to how families leave the children in childcare so they can work enough hours to survive. I did a report about NYC and the tenement apartments and this showed how children were factory workers as well as helping mom do side work like sewing. The older children also took care of the younger kids. They had to do that because it was so hard to make a living. As for the status of women, I can see how the house mistress took charge of the help and almost seemed a tyrant. With the help doing everything the sure did have time for fun things. The southern plantation head mistress would often times be in charge of the slaves in the house, where often they were not so nice. They asserted their athourity with them similar to the reading. It seems to start with needing status in the home and transferd to needing status in society. Aislyn
 

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