Ch. 3: Separation of work and home

Question 1

Why did they separate their home and work?

Answer 1

Industrial Revolution: created stuff in factories instead of making everything in homes

Question 2

Settlement studies

Answer 2

Looking at organization of buildings and space and change over time

Question 3

Social geography

Answer 3

Distribution of people within settlements, how they changed in settlements

Question 4

Ethnicity

Answer 4

Group of people with shared culture, social identity that people choose

Question 5

Race

Answer 5

Social identity imposed onto people

Question 6

What did Rothchild find?

Answer 6

Found ethnicity was bigger facts in 1789, after separation of home and work in 1840, that changed. As the population increased, the wealthy had more choices of where to live.

Question 7

What did Wall find?

Answer 7

Lower and middle class wanted to separate home and work but wealthy separated first and had that choice.

Question 8

Cult of Domesticity

Answer 8

Cultural change at different times and regions

1840s early 19th century

Question 9

Reasons for cult of domesticity

Answer 9

• Men (working sphere) left home (separated home and work)
• Women weren’t responsible for producing domestic goods
• Relied on men’s wages to buy everything
• Women were responsible for tea time, buying stuff, teaching kids social norms and how to be ideal for society instead of learning how to work.

Question 10

Who did the cult of domesticity affect?

Answer 10

• Family roles
• People living in house
• Image of the country
• Middle and upper class families, white protestant families

Question 11

What aspect of the cult of domesticity did Wall investigate?

Answer 11

• To see if women had say in change, if they had power or influence or if they were taken advantage by men
• Who was responsible for making the change
• Used ceramics

Question 12

What did they find?

Answer 12

• Women contributed to cult of domesticity

- Less children at home, less male employees, increased servants

Question 13

How did meals change?

Answer 13

• Later in the day
• Maintain and strengthen family ties
• Bread at each meal, soup is first course, centerpiece

Question 14

Tea time vs. dinner

Answer 14

Dinner: More private and intimate, family and servants
Tea time: More public, guests, entertainment
- Tea and coffee was widely consumed as energy boost for workers

Question 15

How did ceramics change?

Answer 15

Changed from plain to floral and Chinese

Question 16

5 Points

Answer 16

• Most popular of all slums
• In proximity of all classes
• Immigrants were better off than in home countries, had money to move
• Found toys, salaries (people moving large amounts of money), porcelain
• Brothels, prostitutes, workers had hard lives