Industrial Revolution Dbq Essay

The industrial revolution caused a general shift from traditional gender roles in the household to woman being forced into dangerous working conditions.The widespread employment of woman gave head way to profond social change that occurred in the erra.The employment of woman gave way to the new generation acceptance of woman in the workplace.Contrary to the rigid social structure of Victorian england Factories were not in compliance with the strict social edquite.At the time of the revolution queen victoria had begun to dictate social edicte that was especially demanding of young woman, but in these factories and mine little social edict was seen,prompting many wealthy victorians to be appalled by the conditions.

Documents three and six both

describe the condition that young girls and woman had to face within factory walls, from a second hand point of view. Document six is from Annie Besant, who talks about how young girls will never be financially independent.Annie also describe the poor conditions the young girls lived and worked in,and how they need to be addressed.Document six is a song written by Roy palmer.Given the fact that Roy wrote a song about woman work days,this gave the assumption that women were almost socially obligated to work when in the lower classes.Showing there was a shift to woman in the workplace instead of the home in lower classes.
Documents One,Two,Three,Four,and six, show Society's shift from only male employment to both men and woman of the lower class, how poor conditions were ignored, and how the upper classes and government had little concern for the poor.Document one Is a first hand account from a woman who had worked in a factory but then went to tending to children and the farm.

believing work never did harm her health but did favor farm work to factory work,Believing the factory work to be to demanding, that statement attest to the hard work these young girls and women did.Document two is a second hand account from a journalist who investigated working conditions of the factories in germany.In his point of view the factory work was doing the young girls and woman no harm, in fact the only thing he found to complain about was the girl's shrill voices even after the mashions were turned off,though he does complement the girls on their ability to concentrate and stand for such long hours.Document three tells how essentially these young girls and women were slaves on the way the worked.These young girls and woman made little money and worked tirelessly for long hours in horrible conditions, showing one of the few documents that tell a negative view on the conditions that these young women and girls faced.Document four is the account of a man who worked with woman in the factory, he describe a situation where socially inappropriate behavior was accepted and his disapproval of the actions of both

genders.Document six tells the tale of the average working woman. All of these documents show how many of the upper class weer ok wiht thies young woman and children toiling away in factories as long as economically the country is successful,This also show the upper classes willingness to socially accept thing from the lower class(especially women),that were not acceptable in any other class.
Within the factory wall men and women were almost considered equal in the work they did and how they were treated this is expressed in document four.Document four is a testimony of a man named Mr.Matthew crabtree,Mr.mathew expresse his concern that men and woman in the factory were not conducting them selve in a proper manner. Mr.matthew believed that the fact that thies young woman had many illegitimate children,and that it was seen as normal and acceptable was cause for concern.In document two a journalist tells the story of factory girls in Germany.He believes that although the work is long demanding and detrimental to hearing that is pose not real harm to the girls, in fact he describes them as being almost joyful and prideful, in their work. Thies accounts are from outside points of views but they show almost the attitude of the time period, that although the work might not be healthy and that sometime young woman were not following social structure, the benefits outweighed the cost.
World war 2 saw the widespread employment of women across america due to the lack male workers.This was the trend that occurred during the industrial revolution.Working conditions were better but woman left the workforce soon after the war, similar to woman leaving the workforce after parliament paced laws limiting their work.Women were not forced into as horrible situation as there industrial revolution counterparts yet they faced challenges and were forced to leave the workforce when the men returned from war.
The industrial revolution took an approach to its poor problem that had never been seen before,the government believed that rather than have dependent they would force them to work and ignore conditions,the rich took on almost the same approach.Within the lower classes the birth of illegitimate children became almost accepted as did women who attempted to support their family through factory work.The only ones who seemed to have a problem with the new found independence of woman was the middle and upper class, who in turn could support themselves without having thier mothers and wives tole away in a factory or mine.So in the lower class there was a huge social change in woman's right while middle and upper classes had the same attitude towards woman for many years to come.