SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Purity Movement, Factory Acts, Industrial Revolution
22 Nov 2014
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White woman labour law - racist, against chinese male relations with them. Ontario factory act protective labour legislation > stools for female, separate washrooms for. Child labour girls couldnt work until 14 and boy till 12 but parents would lie and say they"re older. Women not working at night to justify the division and disadvantages for women. Women weren"t supposed to work during the great depression different sexes, prohibit night work, minimum wage [for women first] (1920s) than actually > reinforced global segregation. Managerial strategy the company/ firm/practices to promote loyalty from their workers and females. Development of a family wage economy strategy of workers to defend themselves from capitalist. Housework becomes new word in nineteenth century. Cult of domesticity complimented material reality of need that someone has to be home to do that exploitation. Social purity multifaceted concept linked to purity of mind/body/soul (the pure life) Purity informed conceptions of nation, race, gender (e. g pure nation/pure race)
