HIST 2930 Lecture 8: Week 8-women,work and industrialization
5 Dec 2016
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Gender roles and expectations, social power shift. New opportunities for women to work for wages outside the home. Money becomes the key to women"s independence: industrialization - production of goods shifts from the home to the factory. Arrives in us beginning in 1820s; not in ca until 1850s-60s. Happens in us first due to its larger population & it also has a more advanced financial and economic structure. More options in terms of transportation (canals, railroads) = products more easily transported. Factories offer women paid wages, independence and stability; leave the private sphere for the public sphere: the option to delay or avoid marriage/children, most factor work is sex-segregated. Womanly" skills needed in factories: women"s work in british north america, approaching confederation and after, most woman"s work occurred in the home. Upper canada (on) still rural and agrarian; very few larger towns (toronto). Widows and single women and the working class work for wages, increasingly.
