men in industry

Question 1

hegemonic masculinity

Answer 1

masculinity = dominance, power and strength

Question 2

before industry

Answer 2

work done by family
specific trade = masculinity
guild system
unsupervised work, no clocks

Question 3

after industry

Answer 3

deskilling - specializing in mundane tasks, no/little upward mobility

Question 4

bread winning

Answer 4

backlash to deskilling, if one can’t specialize their masculinity will = brining home bacon
masculinity = having wife who doesn’t work
cult of domescticity
chartists = want political significance

Question 5

taylorism

Answer 5

workers = individual unitys of production

focus on efficiency

Question 6

rebellion

Answer 6

captain swing and general ludd, luddites (breaking machines)

Question 7

Anna Clarke, The Struggle for the Breeches

Answer 7

shocking spousal abuse

1. Great deal of stress of masculinity and gender caused by the industrial revolution,
2. Sense of failure created by the breadwinner ideal,
3. Because the work is deskilled it is also dehumanizing, and taking anger out on women

Question 8

temperance movement

Answer 8

try to get men to quit drinking all together or to temper alcohol consumption
•Middleclass people looking down on working class women, trying to tell them how to run their lives
•Women played a key role in the abolitionist women, and women take a lot of revolutionary inspiration and they perceive temperance as the “new cause”