... itself destroy the family. • But the family ceases to be a unit of production - it becomes a unit of consumption. Also as production rises you get a situation where often only the adult male in the family works - idea of breadwinner - and this reinforces male power in the home. Sexuality Cannot deal with this issue in full, urbanization not the only factor. &bull ... extremely dirty , dangerous, had low ceiling , poor lighting, and locked windows and doors. Charles Dickinson, who was a 19th century writer, wrote a book about the factory life called Hard Times. The adult factory worker...

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... money, many families faced a genuine dilemma: How could child care, shopping and housework be taken care of? The answer, generally, was to emphasize a new stigmatized kind of labor division between adult men and women: Men worked and earned while women took care of domestic duties. This separation of economic roles quickly deteriorated the previously acknowledged economic importance of women. When forced ... jobs). Quickly following this loss of economic position, assumptions of inherent feminine weakness and vulnerability begin to arise. One principle on which businessmen and many male...

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... in a convenient position to declare the principal of merit rather than birth in determining who should lead society and the state. Liberals were not necessarily democrats who believed that every adult should vote, as it evidently seems due to their activist measures in the formation of a democratic government. An enlarged suffrage would ensure that males such as themselves could dominate national ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate