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McGaw makes an important point, that there were some jobs that the machines could not manage, which is why female workers were an important, though interchangeable, factor to paper production. Some of the tasks that women performed that machines could not included, “handling dry paper without wrinkling or tearing some sheets, . . . hand counting . . . and rag processing” (Smith and Clancey 165, 169). McGaw also makes the claim that, “Continuities in women’s manual labor with dramatic changes in men’s mechanized jobs . . . concluded that God or nature had assigned women their work and that society should not alter it” (Smith and Clancey 167-68). She also notes that skilled men were competing against machines, but that women’s jobs were “safe” because it was difficult for machines to accomplish their tasks (168). It is almost as if the lack of skill required for women’s jobs actually provided them with jobs. The lack of technology brought women into the workforce. –Samantha W. | McGaw makes an important point, that there were some jobs that the machines could not manage, which is why female workers were an important, though interchangeable, factor to paper production. Some of the tasks that women performed that machines could not included, “handling dry paper without wrinkling or tearing some sheets, . . . hand counting . . . and rag processing” (Smith and Clancey 165, 169). McGaw also makes the claim that, “Continuities in women’s manual labor with dramatic changes in men’s mechanized jobs . . . concluded that God or nature had assigned women their work and that society should not alter it” (Smith and Clancey 167-68). She also notes that skilled men were competing against machines, but that women’s jobs were “safe” because it was difficult for machines to accomplish their tasks (168). It is almost as if the lack of skill required for women’s jobs actually provided them with jobs. The lack of technology brought women into the workforce. –Samantha W. | ||
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| + | This just shows how far we have come, today this is looked down upon in our society. "All men are created equal". Men of all races can make a living, and sometimes not even be needed to do the work required of them. With the evolution of technology people can do the work through computers and other resources of technology. Our world is changing and fast. -Jeff | ||
== Steinberg, Dam-breaking in the 19th-Century Merrimack Valley == | == Steinberg, Dam-breaking in the 19th-Century Merrimack Valley == | ||
