Suni Skilled Labor

The experiences of female mill workers in Japan had different experiences from female mill workers in England. The industrial revolution happened in England around the 1800’s while in Japan, the industrial revolution happened around the 1900’s. There are multiple examples of difference between the different female mill workers. These can be categorized into four different groupings. These groups are Background, Salary/Wage, Gender/Age, and Working Conditions. The groups Salary/Wage, Gender/Age, and Working Conditions all show their differences. While the group of Background shows the resemblance of the two groups.

In Mesopotamia, there were different jobs. Men were given the harder jobs, and women would do other jobs that required other strengths besides physical strengths. There were copper and bronze workers, carpenters, leather workers, artisans, scribes, priests, local administrators, and teachers, most of which were employed by the temple. Some jobs were

What are two ways women’s domestic duties are affected by those jobs performed outside the home? “Throughout history, women have made major economic contributions to their societies and families through their labor” (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 273). However, there is old rumors that state women clearly were declined the opportunities to bound in any form of clamorous work of any kind. Though, that is no longer the case today, for many women join the men in the fields, to help process the crops in order to provide much needed nutrients for their families; than ever before. “To explain the world of work for women, sociologists focus on four major types of production in which women have traditionally engaged: producing goods or services for consumption

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Child labor is historically defined as “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development” (Hansan, 2013). Legally, to be considered child labor, work must involve at least one of the following characteristics:

earns 9 sen which is about 4 US cents, they would need to work many days in order to just buy a pound of sugar, radishes or shoes. also, men who worked in any of those textile mills earned way more than a female worker when they both do the same things. when female workers earn as little as 9 sen, men would earns 27 sen as an average daily wage.in another situatuin, young girls would given off to silk mills by their parents.(Doc E) while the family earns earnest money, their daughters would work without lapse till they finished. if they were to break any of those rules they would need to return the earnest money and pay twenty more times the earnest money without

In pre-Industrial Revolution America and Britain, women and girls performed much of the labor necessary for the survival for the small household, including the manufacture of yarn, cloth, candles, and food. By 1790, the availability of water-powered machinery such as spinning frames and carding machines enabled industrial magnates to substitute power tools for women's hand labor in the manufacture of cloth. Similar inventions made homemade candles, jellies, and similar labor-intensive products obsolete.

Women during the Industrialization were given specific jobs in factories that were not performed by males. For example, in document 5, an illustration shows how women were employed to transfer the coal from the mines to the surface, or haul coal to the shafts. Both occupations were refused to be performed by males. Another example would be in Document 2, where a journalist reported the working facility of female textile workers. Its stated that the female work of carpet weavers should not be underrated, but yet acknowledged. Despite the difficulty of the job, they were still distinct

The biggest problem about the industrial Revolution was the matter of Child labor. Child labor was used and favored by many businesses because children could be paid less than women that could be paid less than men. According to the conversation on document 7,C: What time did you begin work at the factory? B: When I was six years old. (Document7) This part of the conversation on document 7 directly mentions child labor. Child labor began in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Children would work in mostly textile factories. Textile factories made cotton clothes to be sewn into clothing.

More directly, Tsurumi states “for the majority of peasant families survival was impossible without women and their work” (Tsurumi, 16). This makes the importance of Japanese women to their households during the period of history prior to the Meiji Era indisputable. Nevertheless, even as familial roles changed during Japan’s shift to a money economy, the support women provided to their families remained steadfast, as the earnings they made at factories were often sent back to their homes to support their families. As the need for women to find jobs that could pay them in cash grew, the potential for women to help support their families, or the ability to reel “for the sake of the nation” attracted women and girls to the first silk reeling mill in Tomioka. Tsurumi affirms this by saying “service to the nation, family economic interest, or a combination of the two brought young women to Tomioka to become part of a proud elite striving both for national goals and for regional prosperity” (Tsurumi, 30). By portraying the act of working for a textile mill as a service to both their families and to their country, Tsurumi furthers the idea that the women of the time were heroes of their era. However, as

As industrialization spread in Western Europe, the production of products and goods moved from the household to factories which drastically changed family life. Married women were unable to work unless they left their children and home in someone else’s care. Moreover, middle-class women generally did not leave their homes in order to work. In contrast, the women of Eastern Asia rapidly joined the work force after the introduction of industrialization and made up a gigantic portion of the labor force. This difference is probably due to the fact that the rural women of Eastern Asia were always laborers, and they make up the majority of the female population. Additionally, European women generally preferred domestic labor to laborious tasks. Rural women were offered independence by leaving their homes in order to perform domestic work; they generally sent their earnings to their families or saved it for themselves. Moreover, the European women that participated in the work force were forced to travel long distances and were separated from their families from long hours. Additionally, their wages were significantly lower than that of their male counterparts. Furthermore, women worked under poor conditions and were constantly susceptible to disease. Similarly, the poor women of Eastern Asia sought employment in the cotton and silk industry.

Firstly, the textile was at that time the most demanding industry. The quality of life had increased and the number of population as well. Therefore, the

“Most girls were trained from childhood for the traditional roles of wife, mother, and housekeeper. They learned how to grind grain, how to cook and make beverages, especially beer, and how to spin and weave cloth for clothing. If a woman worked outside of her home, her job usually grew out of her household

The Industrial Revolution was an age of mechanization—businesses were moving away from completing tasks by hand, and instead were moving towards utilizing specialized equipment. Many of these machines were, as stated by Deborah Simonton in her book A History of European Women’s Work, “built to be operated by people with the hands, height, and weight of an average male (144 Simonton).” Spinning was one such occupation that was mechanized, and in her book Gender, Work, and Wages in the Industrial Revolution, Joyce Burnett states that “…before the arrival of machinery, spinning… employ[ed] all the women in certain areas. What had been a valued skill for most women suddenly became worthless as the jenny, water frame, and mule replaced hand spinning” (122 Burnette). Women who had once been employed were forced from their work as machines took over that were only operable by men, and this often left them without adequate means to support themselves or their families.

Have you ever wondered if there is anyone who wants child labor to be stopped? Well there is, Iqbal masih, a boy who lived in pakistan, was one of the two most famous child labor activists. There also is craig kielburger, an adult who is constantly traveling the globe to free kids from child labor. Both of these kids are against child work and in this chapter you will learn more about the activists and what they do to stop child