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An 8 page research paper that examines the lives of women working in New York factories in the early part of the century. The writer focuses on the sociological implications that women working held for the country that includes how the topic of women working was perceived by the general public. The writer used original newspaper accounts to describe a typical strike that dramatized how women were taking part in the early labor movement. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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in American society was accompanied by a great deal of controversy and prejudice directed towards these women. It was predicted that female employment would bring about the downfall of society
and the ruination of the American family. While a large portion of the public was appalled by the notion of independent young working women, they were also fascinated. Therefore,
the attitudes of the public toward these women can be seen in the literature that was produced at that time. The works of Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser immediately come
to mind as dramatizations of the life of women of this period. Slowly, attitudes began to change. The employment opportunities for women enlarged and women began to slowly gain
their rights as full citizens, finally receiving the right to vote in 1920. The attitudes of the women in the work force also changed as time progressed. At first, they
struggled for even the opportunity to work. As the century progressed, they became more active in union activities and, as newspapers from the period demonstrate, they fought to achieve better
working conditions and better wages. Attitudes toward women factory workers By 1900, many poor and working-class young women, mostly of Northern white extraction, were leaving the confines and moral
strictures of their families and elders and venturing forth to the large industrial cities such as New York (Lunbeck 781). There they became enthusiastic participants of the new pleasures that
were offered to consumers in the brand-new century. Essentially, these young women added a stage to the female life cycle that had not previously existed ?adolescence (Lunbeck 781). In
the 1890s, female factory workers were seen as a serious economic and social threat. Because women generally worked at the bottom of the pay scale, the theory was that they
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