A difference between the cotton industries in Japan and India was that most Japanese workers were women whereas In India less than half of the workers were women. These similarities and differences between the Indian and Japanese cotton industries from the 1880’s to the 1930’s reflected the differences in technologies and agricultural demands in each country. The similarities between the mechanization in Indian and Japanese cotton industries are highlighted in documents four, five, and nine. In Document four, it is stated that in Japan, the money that a factory girl earned was quite often more than a farmer’s salary (though the girls’ salaries were not impressive, either). Thus, families that had to turn over much of their produce to landlords relied on these girls to send money home.
Even though China was in a rapidly changing time, it still tried to stay to its roots. One important part of Chinese life was agriculture; almost 70% of the people were farmers in 1500 because of the large population. While Europe, India, and Japan industrialized sometime from 1450 to 1914, China never did. Even after China’s self-imposed isolation ended, several periods of widespread famine, and the disaster known as the Opium Wars in the 19th century, which allowed the Europeans and their ships to travel anywhere in China, and made the Chinese pay tribute. After all of this, China still did not industrialize until the 1960’s.
350,000 women were in unions in 1914, but 600,000 by 1918. Although many women found themselves earning good wages for the first time during the war, women were always paid less than men, and were not promoted as often as their male colleagues. The war did lead to real changes in social attitudes. Women had more freedom after the war. Their clothing became much simpler, with shorter skirts and sleeves.
Document Based Question Working and living conditions of India and Japan during the Industrial Revolution With the coming of the Industrial revolution came little to no change in the working and living conditions of those who worked in the factories of the cotton industry even as the companies lost workers or gained tremendous amount of profit. This idea can clearly be seen in all of the following documents on how the workers lives change as time goes by in this case during the time when the industrial revolution occurred. Support comes from documents such as Document 3 where the living and working conditions were so poor that people developed Tuberculosis and often died as soon as they got home to be treated. In Document 4 Which is the Buddhists recollections on the dependence that the farming communities had on the girls who selflessly volunteered to go work in the factories even when faced with a chance of death mainly because they were the source of the family’s income. This shows that the living conditions were truly poor and many people faced troubles during the harsh times.
A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds a baby that is not her own. According to a 1901 census about sixty-eight percent of the house hold had between about three and seven members. Most women and men occupation connected to the straw weaving industry. That shows that there weren’t any other jobs better than weaving. Even though many women did the same hard labor jobs like the men’s did, it was still count less than what men’s did.
Brandi Cory IDS 101 Masculinity and Femininity Final Essay Question #1 I chose the article by Ann Crittenden titled, “Sixty Cents to a Man’s Dollar,” because I can relate to this article on a personal level. As a woman that grew up in a two parent household and now as a single mother, I witnessed the injustice to women in the workplace. As a small child I watched as my mother and father worked at the same place, doing the same job, yet my mother made less money than my father did. At that time no one really talked about it, it was just “normal” and not many people thought twice about it. Was it because she was a woman or because she was a mother, I am not quite sure, or if it was the combination of the two.
Women were once only seen in homes cleaning and cooking and the era of Rosie was the first step in women’s rights. Though at the end of the war men returned to their old factory jobs forcing women out of their maculating jobs, they showed women as a whole that they could do the same thing men could. While women did not end up reentering the work force until the 1970’s they were not in such high demand at this time either
Unskilled workers fared poorly in the early U.S. economy, receiving as little as half the pay of skilled craftsmen, artisans, and mechanics. About 40 percent of the workers in the cities were low-wage laborers and seamstresses in clothing factories, often living in dismal circumstances. With the rise of factories, children, women, and poor immigrants were employed to run the machines. Industrialization of the New South was a major change to the economy, after the civil war the agrarian lifestyle was abandoned. Due to the substantial industrial growth labor unions were formed to protect the workers and desire for better wages plus safe working environments (AP&P, pg 248-251).
Coming from all walks of life, there were those already working who switched to higher-paying defense jobs, those who had lost their jobs due to the Depression, and then there were the women who worked at home. Rosie the Riveter was the idol for these working women also she was known as the cover girl for the recruiting campaign. By 1944, 16 percent of all working women held jobs in war industries. While an estimated 18 million women worked during the war, there was growing concern among them that when the war was over, it would never be the same again. That new venture for American women would soon come to an end.
Esther Oh Mr young US history / p2 10 april 2012 ch 47 the NFWA merged with another group to become the United farm workers author Betty Friedan exposed the unhappiness of many middle-class women in her bookThe Feminine Mystique. In 1965, they made only about 60 cents for every dollar men earned. Even women in higher positions were paid less than male colleagues The invisible barrier to women’s professional advancement has been called the glass ceiling. This term has also been applied to minorities. The first, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, outlawed “wage differentials based on sex” in industries that produced goods for commerce.