HIST 2506 Lecture 3: LECTURE 3:4 - Industrialism & Class ONECLASS
18 Feb 2017
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Growth & then death of putting-out system. New urban working class people had to go to the machines. Cities increase in size people arrived before infrastructure of the city could adapt to them. Growth of piece work, decline of artisans/craftwork. Precarious nature of work still need family economy but it"s a different kind. Women most flexible workers: easiest to hire & fire, most were unskilled. Sewing home or workshop: more people wore cotton & bought their clothing than before, more people wore underwear, fetching & delivering clothes along w/ sewing. Isolated couldn"t make demands of their employer: could do it while caring for children at home. Domestic service: huge # of girls & women, hard work, some benefits, 1860s a third of women working as servants. Everything dictated by bells lots of rules. Women became a symbol of immoral working class wore little clothing or men"s clothes b/c it was hot. Marriage age falls (england age fell to 23)
