HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Wage Labour, Smallpox
20 Dec 2013
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Cultural norms are the world view of the dominate class are taken as natural, inevitable and beneficial to all. When actually it only benefits the elite. Separation between home and work that layed the basis of child labour. Industrialization dependent on child labour but produced opposition to it. Cash economy growing importance of cash wages. Non wage labour - dress making (make families for free and other peoples dresses for cash) Parents need kids on street to bring back coal. Kids on street are independent of parental supervision. Class differences that were greater than before. Children to be ones to go out and earn the wages (exception of black families) Children part of that story of moving west. The kids grew up in new settlement. Children are a central part of this story. Expectation for children not enslaved, to go to some school ad learn to read. Tax supported education for everyone, regardless of class 1830s/1840s.
