Women in the Workplace The emergence of an urban, industrialized society affected the lives of American women in the late nineteenth century. ... However, the jobs of both men and women in the nineteenth become more and more specialized in their nature. ... The invention of the typewriter led to excellent jobs for women in the nineteenth century. ... Female doctors of the nineteenth century were rare as well. ...
Women's Roles and Rights Starting the nineteenth century, the U.S. was still a man's world. ... Gender differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America mainly due to the economy. ... Although a number of small manufacturing enterprises existed in America, the value of the output of factories did not exceed that of farms until well past the middle of the nineteenth century. ...
America was changing and developing a strong economy through agriculture in the South and the West while the Northeast was moving towards an industrial revolution. Technology helped to speed agricultural growth and development with the invention of the cotton gin and the mechanical grain harvester (...
(Madrick) There were many factors that contributed to the development of industry in England in the eighteenth century. ... By the nineteenth century all European states, including Canada, Japan, and the United States managed to raise their per capita industrial levels to record highs....
It began sometime after the middle of the 18th century. ... At that time England faced increasing pressure to produce more manufactured goods due to this population explosion - England's population nearly doubled over the course of the century. ... Then, quite suddenly at the end of the century, most of the people realized the shamefulness of child labor. ... In the early eighteenth century roads were bad, the river was only available at certain points and times of the year. ...
Martin Ritt effectively uses the setting of the textile factory to illustrate the points of Scientific Management developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor in the later decades of the nineteenth century and the stratification of class and gender. ...
