It changed not only the machinery and work organization, but also the location of workplaces and home, the size, composition and relationship of the family. ... The rural and agricultural life turned to urban industrial with longer working hours and away from family. ... Life on the farm had been oriented to a family and community. ... At first, this imposition of discipline was strange to individuals who were used to the more irregular and leisurely pace on the farm. ... Women and children appeared in greater numbers in the factories, not a new phenomenon as they had worked on the farm, but ...

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There were the upper class women, who were considered to be too respectful to work, and if they did it was assumed that their husbands were not rich enough to support the family. ... Not only did they have to do the housewife duties of cooking, cleaning and motherly chores but also go out and earn the money for the family undertaking jobs such as domestic servants, mill workers, as well as working on farms or shops if the wives of farmers and shop owners. ... This involved doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning for a household, usually of an upper class family and in many cases it was hard wo...

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