HPS202H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Profit Margin, Technological Change, Sociotechnical System
16 Apr 2019
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The impact of industrialization on the gendered division of labour varied according to industry and location. Women and children"s participation in the labor force increased. Women wages remained lower than men"s wages. Female tasks were consistently categorized as unskilled. The significance of women"s work tends to be overlooked in standard accounts of industrialization. Estimates by economic historians usually based on male wages and male employment rates. Stats were collected at first only in respect to male labor. Evolving gendered division of labour with spinning is particularly due to tech design. Early jennys were designed with female nd child labour in mind. A form of technopolotics that enabled a larger profit margin for factory owners/ capitalists. Because women and children were the lowest paid. Why werent men a prefered labour force. They tended to concentrate in industries or tasks with guild protections and later unions. Easier for factories just to employ women.
