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This 10 page paper discusses the history of women in the labor movement in the 18th and 19th centuries. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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organization in general didnt occur until after the end of the Civil War. The labor movement in the United States is one of the most vital and energetic social movements
in history, and although it is now under fire, we shouldnt forget the contributions that "blue-collar workers" have made to this nation. This paper discusses the history of women in
the labor movement in the 18th and 19th centuries. Women in the Labor Movement 18th and 19th Century From an unemployed person of today we move back in time to
consider the place of women in the labor movement. In the 18th century in America, women usually worked in the home, "but romanticizing this role as the Domestic Sphere came
in the early 19th century" (Lewis, 2005b). In the earliest days of the nation, women often worked alongside their husbands in the fields, in addition to running the household, cooking,
spinning yarn and weaving the cloth from which they made the familys clothes (Lewis, 2005b). "After the Revolution and into the early 19th century, higher expectations for educating the children
fell, often, to the mother" (Lewis, 2005b). Women, particularly unmarried or divorced women, "might work in another household, helping out with household chores of the wife" (Lewis, 2005b). In
addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and midwives" (Lewis, 2005b). But as we can see from these examples, there was little
or no formal labor movement in these early days. When the Industrial Revolution swept through the world, more women went to work outside the home and "[B]y 1840, ten percent
of women held jobs outside the household; ten years later, this had risen to fifteen percent" (Lewis, 2005b). Factory owners hired women and children because they could pay them lower
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