返回Google圖書搜尋

Good Girl Work

其他書名	Factories, Sweatshops, and how Women Changed Their Role in the American Workforce
出版	Millbrook Press, 1999
主題	Business & Economics / Women in BusinessJuvenile Nonfiction / Business & EconomicsJuvenile Nonfiction / Girls & WomenJuvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / GeneralJuvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / SociologyJuvenile Fiction / Girls & WomenSocial Science / Children's Studies
ISBN	07613095199780761309512
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7EHhAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋It didn't take eighteenth- and nineteenth-century factory owners long to realize from what source their cheapest, best unskilled labor could come: women and girls. Small, delicate, nimble fingers were good for peeling burning-hot biscuits from tray after tray. They were good for stitching, sewing, threading, and weaving. Eventually, society as a whole came to believe that not only were the girls good for the work, but the work was good for the girls. Unskilled and uneducated, here was a way a poor girl could help her family. Working girls remained working girls no matter what their age -- "ladies" were something else entirely. In the late nineteenth century, the girls began to recognize their plight and then organize to change it. Told through first-person accounts from a wide variety of sources, this is their story.