Gohare Blog # 8

Gohar Blog # 8


Textbook: Chapter 5 (pp. 283-305)What were the most significant developments in women’s wage labor in the late nineteenth century? How did they affect working-class, middle-class, and elite women?
1. Women wage’s labor increased in the late nineteen century. They start leaving domestic service for new industrial factories. Large numbers of working-class women were looking for job in North. They were looking for new opportunities and they don’t have to be stick for private owner anymore. The middle-class women were living in more convenient situation. The elite women would have a lot more opportunities such as servants and so on. At the end look like the working-class women were producer and middle-class and elite women were consumer and kind of balance were between them.

Textbook: Chapter 6What is the importance of the images on page 345 for understanding Native American women’s experience during the era of western consolidation?

2. Images on page 345 are very interesting and have many facts inside. It shows we can not change the inside of people by changing outside. In first image they are with their traditional clothes and hair style, but in second image with new style. We can see the sadness in their eyes. It looks they have so many things that make them sad. They can not be happy just with new dress.

Source InterpretationTextbook document (Chapter 5 pp. 311-316) – “The Woman Who Toils,” and “The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Ladies as Factory Girls”What different sorts of women does Bessie Van Vorst meet in the factory, and how and why do their responses to their work vary?

3. There are different kinds of people all over the world and the same are working women. Most of them are working to support their family economic needs. Some of them have much more wealthy family to support them and they are there to learn something, have fun or spend extra hours. There are many widows who are the only one should work and take care of her kids. Van Vorst is there to support her two sisters and help her mother to get enough food for family.

Why does Van Vorst conclude that working women are passive in accepting their working conditions and unwilling to stand up for themselves in the way of working men? Do you think she is right?
4. I thing she is right. It will take time to women really get their place. They are not really stand for themselves, like I said in part 3 all of them do not have responsibility and they don’t care as much as men do. They are agreeing with everything who got and that is not the right way.