What Is The Role Of Working Workers In The 1950s

It took $600 per year to make ends meet and most industrial workers made approximately $500. Women and children therefore had to go to work. By 1900, 1.7 million Children were working. On average, children worked 60 hours per week and took home pay that was a third of the size of adult males. Women would also choose to sometime work, they would generally only produce apparel and blankets. With the whole family put to work, and the working man fueling the steel machine, it was sure to

Child labour, which began in the early 1800’s and ended around the 1920’s. Child labour was commonly used to help poor/immigrant families receive more money. According to history.com it states, “25 percent of the employees were below the age of fifteen, with half of these children below age twelve. In addition, the horrendous conditions of work for many child laborers brought the issue to public attention.” This reveals children worked even below the age of 15 and even 12 years old. They weren't given tolerable working conditions despite their young age. Also according to american-historama.org it states, “The typical hours of work lasted from sunrise to sunset, 11 or 12 hours per day, six days a week. They had less than one hour break in their working day … They earned an average weekly wage of one dollar.” This shows children worked a considerable number of hours and only earned little wage. Lastly according to scholastic.com it says “Many children began working before the age of 7, tending machines in spinning mills or hauling heavy loads. The factories were often damp, dark, and dirty. Some children worked underground, in coal mines. The working children had no time to play or go to school, and little time to rest. They often became ill.” This shows at very young ages children began work as they worked in damp, dark, and dirty work areas. However in

“The official poverty rate is 13.5% based on the U.S Census Bureau’s 2015 estimate”. (http://povertyucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-united-states). In the 1950s more than 23% of Americans were living in poverty. (Excerpt from “The Fifties”: Fifties society). The average poverty rate in the US has gone down since the 1950s, that is a good change for the society. The poverty rate in the US has gone up by 1.3%. This is a bad change for the US society. “The average unemployment rate in the U.S today is 4.3%”. (Google). “The average unemployment rate in the 1950s was 3%”. (Google). The unemployment rate has gone up which is a bad change. The society had changed also since the 1950s for example, in the 1950s you didn’t have to lock your doors or lock your car because the crime rate was so low that people didn’t have to worry about other people breaking into their house, stealing, robbing them, or break into their cars. Now today when people leave their house they lock their doors right away because how high the crime rate is. “The average income for a family in 2014 is $65,751”. (https://www.ustoday.com/story/money/personalincome/2016/11/24/average-american-household-income/93002252/.) “The average income for a family in the 1950s was between $3,319 and $4,418”. (https://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/yi/yi/16.pdf). The average income for families has drastically changed for the better witch shows that the American society in some aspects is changing for the

Life in the 1950s was a time where when a women was married and has kids she would stay home taking care of the meals, and children. Men would be the ones to go out and find a good job that helps with money problems. Also sometimes married women would hire a nanny to also help around the house. In the 1950s men respected women more than they do today because women were supposed to be beautiful and elegant. Also men were able to be a gentleman around women.

During the 1900’s, factories had the most available work, though there was some agriculture. Working

As Samuel Gompers notes, “I maintain that this is a true proposition- that men under the short-hour system not only have opportunity to improve themselves, but to make a greater degree of prosperity for their employers”(2). Men who are overworked have “lives to work instead of working to live” (2) which is accurate. They do the same thing every day having a routine and no time devoted into bettering themselves and having thoughts on ideas or anything. The author is Samuel Gompers and the intended audience is working men, more specifically those who hire the working men. To make them realize what they are doing by assigning so many hours to men. This is a primary document as it may have been composed during the midst of a time when men were constantly overworked.

     One of the more interesting aspects that Peiss mentions about the change in the demographics of the labor force directly relates to the way leisure time is spent. Peiss mentions many statistics that show how the working woman was quickly refusing household work and moving to the factory or office position. More specifically, a study of 370 working mothers showed 70 percent of them to be employed in domestic and personal service while the vast majority of their daughters worked in stores, offices, and factories (Cheap Amusements, 39). The significance of this change lies in the resulting change in attitude about leisure time. Now, a clearer distinction between time spent at work and

A new work culture emerged, The Tyranny of the Clock: under the domestic system, workers could set their own pace and hours of work and but in the factory system workers were ruled by the dictates of the machinery and the factory owners. We can look at a primary source which shows the working hours and conditions for a child in a factory in the late 1700's. Charles Aberdeen first started work in a cotton factory when he was twelve years old, he was sent to one in Hollywell by the Westminster Workhouse. In 1832 he was sacked from a cotton Factory in Salford at age fifty three for signing a petition in favour of factory reform. He was interviewed by Michael Sadler and his House of Commons Committee on 7th July 1832 when he told about life as a scavenger in the mill, and how he had to work under the machine whilst it was running.

Overall, in the 1900s workdays were long, pay was small and workers were worked hard. Now, work days are shortened, the pay is higher, and working conditions are much more ideal.

He criticizes the proponents that say the working conditions are improving. The rate of pay increase is very insignificant to the cost of living. And he compares the working hours to the dark ages in which the people of the dark ages worked less. One thing people feared to disturb labor and production of sustenance was famine. He also brings to

It was not that long ago where women in the 1950s were held by certain standards. The sad part is that much hasn’t changed today. Many women today work outside the home (a single household income is not enough support) and are still expected to maintain the “housewife” image. Child bearing, cleaning, and cooking are still considered a woman’s job.

Workers in England and Japan had similar hours of work. A young English girl around 1840 “began to work in the factory at 5:30 a.m. and finished at 8 p.m.,” with only two breaks, “a thirty-five minute break for breakfast and a fifty-five minute break for dinner” (doc 5). She worked for a total of 13 hours a day, and “worked another nine hours on Saturday … Sunday was an off day” (doc 5). In Japan, “a study by the government in 1900 revealed that a normal working day in a plant in Okaya was thirteen to fourteen

During the early stages of the Twentieth Century, the labor force was focused more on industrial jobs than agricultural jobs as technology was evolving. About 24 million Americans ranging from 10 years and above were employed. The number of women working in the workforce was about 19 percent as children in the workforce was about 6 percent of the labor force. The work force was dominated by men as culture deemed them to be superior than women. Children worked as some parents couldn’t provide enough for their families, so they sent their children off to work in dangerous conditions. As the second industrial revolution was nearing its end, many people were employed in factories which received low pay and dangerous conditions as the average week was 53 hours. At the start of the 20th Century, only 15 percent of people that got injured in the workplace were successful in suing their employer and received money for the damages. This type of exposure of human labor would cause a shift in the labor force as

Even though the eight-hour day movement were widespreading, there was only a minority of workers initially won the Eight-Hour Day. Overtime working had caused stress on the workers as male death had a large increasing throughout 1890 to 1914 from being over tired.

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