HIST 201 Lecture Notes - Economic Freedom
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Women continue to dominate the textile industry (esp. when it comes to spinning: u-shaped model, marginalization of women"s work. Women are not paid as well for their work, and their participation of women working changes overtime. Then more and more women start to join the workforce again (the second gain in the u-shape: opportunities in just one industry. Historians argue about what they are willing to count as labor: income and independence of women. Huge disagreement about whether or not industrialization helped increase income and independence for women. One argument is that whatever women earned still belonged to the husband: connection to the vote. A lot of people argue that industrialization increased the freedom of women and increased their income, and this eventually led to women being allowed to vote. But there is over 100 years of industrialization in europe before women are given the right to vote: change or continuity.
