Jason Karel
History A170
Prof. Brent Rudmann
October 24th, 2017
Annotated Bibliography: The Role of Women’s Worker in America in1800’s
In 1821, the young women started to be employed by Boston Manufacturing Company, and it showed that the women workers played a big role in industrial transformation around 1800-1850 period.
Corbett, P. Scott, et al. U.S. history. OpenStax College, Rice University, 2014.
This book is the textbook that we use for the course (history A170) in Orange Coast College. 6 PhD holders, which are Scott Corbett, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Paul Vickery, and Sylvie Waskiewicz, from well-known universities and community colleges wrote this book. Dr. Wakiewicz, who is the lead editor, was granted PhD from New York University. She has spent last 8 years on editing college textbook and academic journals. This book is also reviewed by 38 academias from 38 different universities, community colleges and academic institution.
Solidarity between the women in their workplace was pretty strong because they had the same experience where they needed to leave their town to work far away and get together everyday in their workplace. Therefore, when the companies did something unpleasant to the women workers, they gathered to protest the bad policies from the company. For instance, in 1821, the women workers in Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham protested by striking the company for two days because they cut their wages. This fact is important to the thesis because it shows one of the important role of the women workers on that period which is to start a movement for workers’ rights.
England, Kim, and Kate Boyer. “WOMEN'S WORK: THE FEMINIZATION AND SHIFTING MEANINGS OF CLERICAL WORK.” Journal of Social History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2009, pp. 307–340. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20685389. web. 10 November 2017.
The article is from JSTOR a highly respected site that offers peer review academic papers. The principal author is Professor Emeritus, Brunel University, London and a founder of Centre for American, Transatlantic and Caribbean History and the Society for History of Women in the Americas. The author has also published several peer-reviewed journals on women history with an economic aspect
The journal critically analysis’s the changing tide of women who worked in the industrial revolution to the acceptance of a society that a woman’s job was in the office by gathering and analyzing crucial data provided from various credible sources. The article summarizes the evidence found based on social and race discrimination among employed women in the late 19th century.
Helmbold, Lois Rita, and Ann Schofield. “Women's Labor History, 1790-1945.” Reviews in American History, vol. 17, no. 4, 1989, pp. 501–518. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2703424. Web. 10 November 2017.
The academic article is published by John Hopkins University Press offering it credibility. The principal author is a professional and lectures at the in the Women's Studies department at University of Nevada Las Vegas.
The focus is on the women who worked in other sections of the American sector. The author's state majority of journals on working women in the 1800’s are focused on the white collars jobs leaving out crucial parts in agriculture and service occupation. The concept of women’s union militancy is tacked, and with historically proof, the journal provides the role women played in various workers union. The journal also captures multiple challenges and factors that made it impossible for women to advance in the workplace.
Baxandall, Rosalyn, et al. “Boston Working Women Protest, 1869.” Signs, vol. 1, no. 3, 1976, pp. 803–808. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3173166. Web. 10 November 2017.
The journal, which is also from JSTOR, titled “Boston Working Women Protest”, was written by Baxandall, Rosalyn; Gordon, Linda; and Reverby, Susan. This journal is was published inside a journal compilation called “Signs” which is the leading international journal of women’s studies. Linda Gordon is an American feminist and historia who earned her Ph.D from Yale university in Russian History. Susan Reverby is a faculty in Wellesley College and holds a Ph.D in American Studies from Boston University. Lastly, Rosalyn Baxandall is a lecturer in CUNY and had published publications related to feminism.
In this journal, it is mentioned that the women union were having a protest because of low-wage and the machinery that made their skill degraded. This journal also provides the cause of the protest and analyze the movement of the women. This journal argues that the women worker in late 19th century shows that many women did not have men to support them. The author also makes a hypothesis that proletar movement was started from women’s worker.