Stories Of Women During The Industrial Revolution

Author : Ben Hubbard
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1484608631
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution written by Ben Hubbard and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2015 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role women played during the industrial revolution by relating the stories of Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale, Sarah G. Bagley and Mother Jones.

Author : Danielle Thorne
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620236370
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution written by Danielle Thorne and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries saw a period of technological, historical, and even social advancements. Men like James Hargreaves and Eli Whitney worked to make life easier for the working class, inventing machines like the spinning jenny and the cotton gin. But men weren’t the only luminaries of the Industrial Revolution: women of all ages from the joined in the revolution to further advance society. Margaret Elizabeth Knight brought paper bags to the world, and Elizabeth Magie’s interest in politics and economics gave us the much beloved game of Monopoly. And what would we do without Tabitha Babbitt’s circular saw or Josephine Cochran’s dishwasher? In today’s modern world, we often take important inventions like these for granted, but with their female inventors, we’d be living vastly different lives. A part of the Hidden in History series, “The Untold Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution” shares the stories of women who should be remembered for their remarkable talents, ingenious inventions, and hard work, but have been previously overshadowed and forgotten to history.

Author : Ivy Pinchbeck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136936904
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution written by Ivy Pinchbeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Thomas L. Dublin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723820
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Women's Work written by Thomas L. Dublin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am not living upon my friends or doing housework for my board but am a factory girl," asserted Anna Mason in the early 1850s. Although many young women who worked in the textile mills found that the industrial revolution brought greater independence to their lives, most working women in nineteenth-century New England did not, according to Thomas Dublin. Sketching engaging portraits of women's experience in cottage industries, factories, domestic service, and village schools, Dublin demonstrates that the autonomy of working women actually diminished as growing numbers lived with their families and contributed their earnings to the household. From diaries, letters, account books, and censuses, Dublin reconstructs employment patterns across the century as he shows how wage work increasingly came to serve the needs of families, rather than of individual women. He first examines the case of rural women engaged in the cottage industries of weaving and palm-leaf hatmaking between 1820 and 1850. Next, he compares the employment experiences of women in the textile mills of Lowell and the shoe factories of Lynn. Following a discussion of Boston working women in the middle decades of the century-particularly domestic servants and garment workers-Dublin turns his attention to the lives of women teachers in three New Hampshire towns.

Author : B. L. Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Modern Industry written by B. L. Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ross Tanner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534674981
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History written by Ross Tanner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Holds the Key to Understanding the Present Most of the time, when you sit down with a book of history, you are going to be reading about men. Men who win wars and men who lose wars. Men who create empires, and men who destroy empires. Men who author great works and design great machines that change the course of the world. The thing is, half the people in the world are women. What about them? Women have also done a lot of creating, and destroying, authoring, and designing, right alongside the men; but unless they were queens, like Elizabeth I of England, or Catherine the Great of Russia, or notorious villainesses like Jezebel or Mata Hari, you don't hear as much about them. Nevertheless, women have been there all along, doing things that made a difference. This book is about eight of those women who were born and lived in the time between the beginning of the Industrial Revolution until the present day: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), whose short life rode the leading edge of a wave of change, and who can rightfully be called the world's first feminist. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), a mathematician whose father was poet/adventurer George Gordon Lord Byron, who called her approach to formal thinking "poetical science," and who is credited with writing the world's first computer program. Harriet Tubman (ca. 1822-1913), the fifth of nine children born to plantation slaves in Maryland, who risked her life to gain freedom for herself and her family, who fought and spied for the Union during the American Civil War, and whose image will soon grace the American $20 bill. Margaret Knight (1838-1914), who had to drop out of school when she was twelve years old, and never went back, and yet became one of the most successful inventors of her age. Nancy Wake (1912-2011), who once said that when men have to go off to war, "I don't see why we woman should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas." So during World War Two she learned to shoot, and spy, and fight hand to hand, and then jumped out of an airplane into The Mirabal Sisters: Patria (1924-1960), Minerva (1926-1960) and Maria Teresa (1935-1960). Some stories don't get to have a happy ending. This is one of them. Scroll to the top and select the "Add to Cart" button before the price increases

Author : Ben Hubbard
Publisher : Raintree Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781406289558
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Stories from History written by Ben Hubbard and published by Raintree Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ivy Pinchbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850 written by Ivy Pinchbeck and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Zlotnick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution written by Susan Zlotnick and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrial revolution in nineteenth-century England disrupted traditional ways of life. Condemning these transformations, the male writers who explored the brave new world of Victorian industrialism looked longingly to an idealized past. However, British women writers were not so pessimistic and some even foresaw the prospect of real improvement. As Susan Zlotnick argues in Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution, novelists Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna were more willing to embrace industrialism than their male counterparts. While these women's responses to early industrialism differed widely, they imagined the industrial revolution and the modernity it heralded in ways unique to their gender. Zlotnick extends her analysis of the literature of the industrial revolution to the poetry and prose produced by working-class men and women. She examines the works of Chartist poets, dialect writers, and two "factory girl" poets who wrote about their experiences in the mills.

Author : Ben Hubbard
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1484624440
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Women During the Industrial Revolution written by Ben Hubbard and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-18th century, new machines powered by steam and coal began to produce goods on a massive scale. This was known as the Industrial Revolution. Workers were poorly paid and their working conditions were harsh. Life was even harder for working women, who received lower wages and fewer rights than men. Some women, however, would not stand for the poor treatment of themselves or others. These are the stories of four trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Known as the Angel of the Prisons,] Elizabeth Fry brought about changes for female and child inmates. Florence Nightingale did the unthinkable for a woman of the time and, instead of getting married, became a nurse and reformed the nursing system. Sarah G. Bagley was a pioneering labor activist who fought against harsh factory conditions. Mother Jones earned the title of most dangerous woman in America by traveling around the country urging coal miners and mill workers to stand up for their rights. Many of the rights women have today are thanks to their actions. They helped change society's image of women forever.