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Women of the Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution was a great time of change for men, the economy, domestic life, and brought the change in the role of women in society to the forefront. The Industrial Revolution transformed womens lives. From households to factories, the industrial revolution caused a worldwide economic and social revolution. Industrialization in the United States began in New England in the 1790s and integrated women into a developing industrial capitalist society. ...
Women and girls performed much of the labor necessary for family survival in pre-industrial America. ... Women also carried out many of the other processes of the family. ... Mechanizing only some of the most labor-intensive steps of textile production, spinning mills paid women at home to weave factory-manufactured yarn into marketable cloth. (The arrangement whereby local merchants, manufacturers, or middlemen contracted
out labor to women was, and continues to be, known as "outwork" or the "putting out system.") As late as 1820, two-thirds of all cloth manufactured in the United States was produced by women working at home. ... In the 1830s and 1840s Lowell attracted international attention as an industrial utopia that had dodged the hazards of English industrialization, particularly the creation of a permanent, "debased" working class.
Approximate Word count = 944
Approximate Pages = 3.8
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