What lured women into factory work?
Defend the decision of factory owners to pay women less than men.
Excerpt one primary source that compares injury rates for women when compared to men in factories.
How should Parliament improve working conditions for women?
#2. Defend the decision of factory owners to pay women less than men.
ReplyDeleteIt was better to pay women less than men because it was very expensive to hire labor in Britain, and women in general would not complain about low wages, compared to men, who were woefully selfish in their demands for more money. In addition, women were seen as lower-class citizens at that time, and as such did not deserve, in the eyes of the government and business owners, as much money as men.
-Henry McNamara
How could women have changed their social status and gained equality in the Industrial Revolution?
DeleteWomen could have pushed for equal rights and refused to take the treatment of the factory owners, and lobbied the government for help with their situation.
DeleteIs the paying of smaller wages to women justified for the factory owners? Were they not already making a large enough profit due to the innovations available that reduced the cost of making the goods.
ReplyDelete#1. Women were lured to factory life by the need to sustain both themselves and their families. Their willingness to work longer hours for a lower pay than men lured the owners of factories to go out of their way to hire women.
ReplyDelete#1 What lured woman into factory work?
ReplyDeleteWomen were lured to factory work because of the want to work outside of the home, instead in the home, which they had become acquainted to while working in the cottage industry. Another reason is they needed minimum wage to survive and to feed for their families.
#2 How should Parliament improve working conditions for women?
ReplyDeleteParliament should improve working conditions for woman by setting up reforms and laws that don't restrict woman in the workplace. This can be clearly shown by woman in the medical field. Once woman got their degree, which was very hard, they tried to get work at clinics. However they were always rejected and their degree meant nothing. This was later changed by new laws and reforms written by Parliament specifically for woman. Now they had permission to be doctors that could examine people or nurses.
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DeleteGael--This is an interesting source; however merely providing a link to it does not indicate you have learned anything. Please summarize this link to show that you have digested the information.
DeleteIn the Industrial Revolution, did woman receive more rights for work because of small numbers of people working in the factory?
ReplyDeleteYes, the small amount of woman working in factories did affect working for woman slightly. This is best shown by medicine. Woman established schools like The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania and The London School of Medicine for Woman and got rights from Parliament to work in clines as nurses and to conduct examinations.
Reword of question:Explain if woman received more rights for work because of not many people working in the factory?
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ReplyDeleteDuring the start of the industrial revolution, woman were accepted into factories. Even though they were unskilled they were efficient and quick. they were paid half or less than half than a men's pay. The only major difference was that women now worked outside of the home. The conditions were horrible because their eating habits were on and off. The woman working in the industry had little effect on overall woman rights. Woman rights started to be raised by reforms and laws in 1850.
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ReplyDelete#3: Excerpt one primary source that compares injury rates for women when compared to men in factories.
ReplyDeleteThere is no direct data to definitively declare anything about injury rates between men and women in the Industrial Revolution, but records from that time show that men were doing their best to try to force women out of many jobs, including factory jobs. Under the assumption that injury rates were roughly similar between the two sexes, more men were likely injured, but the proportion or ration of women injured compared to the proportion or ration of men injured is probably about the same. More men would have been injured simply because more men were working in dangerous occupations.