The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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Page 50
... industrial workers yearly producing $ 24,300,000 worth of goods , nearly two out of three were women and girls . Advo- cates of industrialization sang the praises of the working girl and advanced many arguments in favor of her ...
... industrial workers yearly producing $ 24,300,000 worth of goods , nearly two out of three were women and girls . Advo- cates of industrialization sang the praises of the working girl and advanced many arguments in favor of her ...
Page 52
... industry for almost a century . Home Industry . The development of factory work was paralleled by the spread of home industry . The needle trades and fashion industry in particular depended entirely on the labor of needy women , who ...
... industry for almost a century . Home Industry . The development of factory work was paralleled by the spread of home industry . The needle trades and fashion industry in particular depended entirely on the labor of needy women , who ...
Page 125
... industrial pursuits . By 1890 the number of industrial wage earners in the country was almost as large as that of farm owners , tenants , and farm laborers combined . In these same decades , unprecedented numbers of immigrants from ...
... industrial pursuits . By 1890 the number of industrial wage earners in the country was almost as large as that of farm owners , tenants , and farm laborers combined . In these same decades , unprecedented numbers of immigrants from ...
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abolitionist American women Angelina Grimké Anne Hutchinson Anthony antislavery became birth control black women Boston campaign career Carrie Chapman Catt cause Charlotte Perkins Charlotte Perkins Gilman child church cities Civil College colonial America colonial women contribution cultural death decades developed Dorothea Dix economic Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emma equal factory federal amendment female suffrage feminist field Frances Frances Wright freedom frontier Gilman girls Grimké Grimké sisters Harriet husband industry Jane Addams labor ladies later leaders leadership legislation literary lives Lucretia Mott male Margaret Sanger marriage married Mary Baker Eddy Massachusetts ment mother National NAWSA nineteenth century nurses NWTUL organized percent pioneer plantation political President reform role Sarah Sarah Grimké sisters slave slavery social society soldiers South southern status struggle suffragists Susan teachers tion United vote wages Willard wives woman suffrage woman's rights movement workers York
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Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |