Section A
1.The Industrial growth created an intense competition between industrialists and financial business as a result industries such as steel, railroads, coal mining, and meat production were dominated by corporate entities. The female labor force was a significant part of this development. White women jumped from agricultural to manufacturing jobs while southern black women remained in agricultural labor. Manufacturing and domestic service were the largest sectors during this era. One third of women worked for wages outside the home but the average pay of women was a third to a half of that of men.
The accelerated growth in clothing production introduced women into the field of office work. New developments as the typewriter were assigned for women’s occupation.
Middle and upper class women became richer, upper class women enjoyed new wealth and influence while middle class women imitated these values. Millionaires proliferated after the Civil War as a result of uneven wealth distribution.
2. As a result of the western consolidation Native American women suffered the period of Americanization, a process in which young women were taught to read and write in English and other useful skills in a coercive way. The resistance that Indian women presented during the process did not stop the brutality of the Americanization. The picture portrays the sadness and unhappiness of the girls that were forced to acquire a new language and new manners violating their rights of liberty and freedom.
Section B
1. Van Vorst met different groups of women with different needs therefore they had distinct answers to work. She found a variety of classes such as “the bread-winner, the semi-bread-winner, and the woman that works for luxury.” (Pg.315) There was the woman that was working for self-support, the women that contributes at home, and the woman that spends the money on her because lived with their parents.
2. The long days of work, the need of the money, the overpopulation, and the inequality of rights led uneducated women to accept the work conditions. During the industrial growth women had no choice than to submit themselves to the policy corporations. In the mean time they were preparing themselves to reveal against the system that was exploited them. I think the women in this era was passive but no resigned to work indefinitely in this conditions. I think it was learning the process to later on fight for their individual rights along with their liberty and autonomy.
1 comment:
In response to Xochital’s blog #8, I like how Xochital mentioned that industries were becoming competitive with goods and women were the relying people who helped the nation at the time boost its economy back up after the Civil War. Also, I like how Xochital mentions that black women did not change their occupation to the manufacturing but they were still in agricultural labor. Also, I like how it is mentioned that women made a third of the half of what the men made, in terms of wage labor income. But I feel that Xochital could be more descriptive on the roles for each gender because it was more in a general view and it’s better to learn and understand things of how it was back in 1865-1900 on the way America was viewed. Although, I like how Xochital mentions that Native American children were still not happy after being colonized because it was a different norm from what they considered happiness. In Xochital’s Source Interpretation, it is good how Xochital mentions the three types of factory women. But I felt there could be a little more description on the three different types of women. In example, the women who worked for their luxury were considered frivolous.
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