HISTORY 3W03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Racialization, Gilded Age
12 Dec 2020
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Discussing women"s paid labour experiences in the industrial age. 19th/20th c. increasing industrialization and immigration in us and canada changed the economic and social landscape of north america. Middle-class and upper-class white women didn"t regularly work outside the home: immigrant, working-class, black, widowed and divorced women without independent means worked outside the home. Significant factor that determined a woman"s work was her marital status: many married women also had to seek ways to supplement household economy. Nature of the local economy was significant in determining the type of work available. Early on in the industrial revolution in the us, many young women migrated from small farming towns in an effort to better support themselves and their families. Becoming mill girls in textile mills in northeastern us. 19th c. women from europe and canada migrated to new england in search of better wages.
