WGS 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Separate Spheres, Piece Work, Church Attendance

• School: CMU
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS 328
• Professor: Tara Mcarthy

Document Summary

Changes in the nature of work-home and factory: What is changing: between 1820 and 1840 the number of americans engaged in manufacturing increased eightfold, number of city dwellers doubled, 1. 7 million immigrants came in the 1840s, and 2. 6 million came in the 1850s. Most of the immigrants were catholic, german and irish (irish because of the potato famine) Changes in the home/family-rise of separate spheres: cult of true womanhood- advice books, sermons, novels, a(cid:374)d poetry, ad(cid:448)ocated (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s proper place a(cid:374)d placi(cid:374)g limits on their activities, their role: Rise of the waltham-lowell system: how did this come about, lowell/francis cabot lowell. Learned as much as he could about the power loom. Hires engineers to recreate a power loom that he saw in europe. ; when the women get to the age of 20 or 30 she gets married and is forced out of the work force.