History of the United States II / Unit 3 USH2 0329 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Women and Children at Work
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The idea
The number of women earning wages tripled to five million between eighteen seventy and nineteen hundred, and a quarter of them worked in factories.
In practice
Young women, most under twenty-five and many from immigrant families, paid less than men.
Where people slip
Employers assumed women needed no independent living wage. Child labour in factories also tripled over the same thirty years.
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