Chapter 3 Flashcards
Social production
Capitalist industrialization changed the relationship between social productionand occured in domestic settings. Family members were engaged in daily life and the creation of foodstuffs, clothing, shoes, candles, soap, and other goods consumed by the household.
Working environment of children of poor families
Children of urban workers, fronteir farmers, and Blacks had a shorter childhood and went to work at an early age before reaching their teen years. Bc their labor was needed for their family’s survival.
Role of immigrant classes in American economy
in the early stages of industrialization, immigrants performed unskilled labot in mining, construction, and manufacturing.
Immigrant women often entered the industrial labor force in order to make ends meet
families were responsible for “making it”
Family wage
an income sufficient to support the family at a decent standard, limited to white men.
other races received wages insfficient to support a family and gave a basis for race and gender discrimination
Economics and marriage during Great Depression
Women and men were laid off
no work
economic burdens were NOT equally shared across the social class nad race divides
Stable work force conditions for migrant workers
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Coercive Labor conditions
The condiotn in which a person is owned as property by another and is under the owner’s control.
families did seasonal and migratory field work.
WOmen had sevre hardships in raining their families with cingested and unsanitary conditions
Chicanos still has a family life genered that women were to obedient and subissive to their partners
