AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: John Humphrey Noyes, John Q., Europe 1
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Development of middle class immigrant labor creates white-collar jobs to supervise all the new factories. White collar jobs are paid a set salary so they buy more products, resulting in more factories. Male: corporate job, makes good money, goes to pubs and joins fraternal groups, has a home. Women: stay home all day, take care of kids, in charge of servants, does volunteer work. The idea that women should be homemakers and should take care of the children. The legal position of married women in the colonial period was covered by her husband. He was in charge of her property, finances, income, children and legal being. She could not make contracts, sue or be sued or sell what had been her property. It was a group of socio-religious perfectionists who lived in. They practiced polygamy, communal property and communal raising of children.
