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== Overarching questions about Woloch, Chapter 13, Urban Wage Earners == | == Overarching questions about Woloch, Chapter 13, Urban Wage Earners == | ||
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| + | # Who were most urban working women? | ||
| + | # What jobs were available for women? [most – ¼ were domestic servants] | ||
| + | # What about for black women? | ||
| + | What were some of the tensions between working women and working men? | ||
| + | Why were the urban working women seen as a problem by other parts of society? | ||
| + | In what ways do women workers continue to define themselves (both to themselves and to the larger society) in terms of the cult of domesticity’s definitions of femininity? | ||
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| + | What did domestic servants (Salmon) say about why they worked in their respective fields? | ||
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| + | How much can we trust the accounts of the lives of urban working class women when they come from middle-class reformers like Helen Campbell? Why? | ||
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'''While reading the passages about women doing clerical work, I wondered whether men preferred to have women in their office in order to extend patriarchy into the work place. Did employers like having women employees because they had more authority as a boss over women than men?''' --Mary Beth M. | '''While reading the passages about women doing clerical work, I wondered whether men preferred to have women in their office in order to extend patriarchy into the work place. Did employers like having women employees because they had more authority as a boss over women than men?''' --Mary Beth M. | ||
