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West Africa is Ghana and Nigeria. They went through a lot of economic and political development. Viewed as the typical African nation in the 1970s. The world's leading cocoa exporting nation however when the needs for coca dropped, their economy suf…
Nationalists in north africa were supported worldwide by the end or World war II. The countries are libya, morocco, algeria, and Tunisia. In libya, king Idris was overthrown by Muammar al-Gadafhi. They were very rich in petroleum, and that turned th…
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The White Revolution was the plan implicated to modernize Iran. It included six points: giving women the right to vote, nationalizing forests, selling government shares in business, reforming land use, modernizing worker and employer regulations, an…
The 1950s were a turning point for Turkey. After Worl War II, Prime Minister Adnan Menderes abandoned secular authoritarianism, statis economic policies and nationalist isolationism of the early Republic in favor of populist democracy, private enter…
This speech basically says how Mao went to go visit the peasants villages. This is an example of volunteerism. Another example is when he is talking about marching with the peasants and leading them through the peasant movement, or stand behind them…
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- At 7:43am on September 26, 2008,
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- Bibliography
1. Reese, Lyn. “Women in World History.” Children’s Employment Commission. 1996. 22 Sept. 2008.< http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/seamstress.html>
2. O’neill, Meaghan. “Sweatshop.” Photo. Treehugger. 2008. 22 Sept. 2008.
3. “Sweatshops.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 25 Sept. 2008. 19 Sept. 2008. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sweatshop
- At 7:41am on September 26, 2008,
Morgan Mizell said…
- BLOG #1
My husband sent me to this place because he was let go from his job. My mother taught me sewing so I should think it wouldn’t be too terribly hard. I was very wrong. The men ushered us into a small room with six long, narrow tables. The big black sewing machines left almost no room for us to sit. Piles of cloth were everywhere. It was very hot and stuffy and I wish someone would open a window, if there were any. They told us to put on our aprons and get back to work. We did as we were told. My first order was from a lady of high society. I had seen her name before, once or twice. She ordered a jade green silk dress with a ruffling neckline that eventually tapered into tight sleeves. It was very beautiful, but difficult. I got to work on the sewing machine, taking care not to rip the delicate silk material. I loaded the thread into the machine and started putting the bodice together…
- At 7:41am on September 26, 2008,
Morgan Mizell said…
- BLOG #2
I’m almost finished with the lady’s green dress. The bodice was beaded and extravagant. I got no praise for it though, the men just stand there, quiet and unseeing and all seeing at the same time. The other women are miserable, as am I, but not as much. I enjoy sewing, just not under these scarce conditions. There are patterns, needles, fabrics, strewn everywhere. Last week, a lady stepped on a needle and had to leave. The men got a replacement for her very quickly, of course, to speed up business. I sometimes imagine myself in this kind of fine attire, wishing that I wasn’t a part of this world of poverty. I knew I could not change my fate. I would stay a seamstress forever. The little girls looked so scared, hungry, and helpless. I have to get back to this dress…almost finished.
- At 7:40am on September 26, 2008,
Morgan Mizell said…
- BLOG #3
There was a rat infestation today at the factory. I thought they would evacuate us but we are told to stay right where we are and keep working. As I settle into my station, I see that my beautiful green bodice has been chewed clean through. It must be the rats. I quickly repaired the holes and continued on with the train. It ruffles into a big Cinderella-like skirt. I got the layers of stiff fabric to prepare. I don’t have enough, and ask the supervisor to go and retrieve one more yard from the fabric shop. He rudely tells me that it would slow business down and if I could just move on to something else. Being a woman, I do as I say. I never quite understood the mentality behind men being superior to women. In any case, I went and worked on the V-neck neckline and went back to my thoughts of myself in this beautiful dress…
- At 7:40am on September 26, 2008,
Morgan Mizell said…
- BLOG #4
Some of the women were planning on a strike for more pay. I decide to join them. Picket signs and all, we stand in front of the dilapidated factory, fighting for our rights to better wages. The men come, having come back from their breakfasts, while most of our stomachs remain empty for days on end. They demand to know what’s going on and we wave our signs at them. I can see their agitation, and their thoughts asking them why women would need more pay than 50 pence a day. To provide for our families, I thought to myself. In the end, they end up deducting our pay from 50 pence to 40 pence a day. That barely buys good bread, milk, or cheese, and definitely not meat. How was I going to keep my family living on such scarce wages? That night, I went home crying. It was never going to get better.
- At 7:39am on September 26, 2008,
Morgan Mizell said…
- This photo describes the hard working conditions under which women had to work. The piles of clothing indicate that they work for very long periods of time. The men in the far left corner supervise the women as they do their work. This symbolizes what power men had and how little women had. With the sweatshops being very messy, it can become a safety hazard because they can easily fall over something. Also, with the women so close together, disease probably ran rampant. Their clothes indicated that they were paid very little. They couldn’t support themselves, let alone a family. These shops were also most likely in a bad area, so they were more prone to rodent infestation. There shows no sign of air ventilation and it probably became very warm and humid.
- At 7:39am on September 26, 2008,
Morgan Mizell said…
- At 7:37am on September 26, 2008,
Morgan Mizell said…
- 1) EVIDENCE TAKEN BY
Children's Employment Commission
February 1841
"Miss --- has been for several years in the dress-making business...The common hours of business are from 8 a.m. til 11 P.M in the winters; in the summer from 6 or half-past 6 A.M. til 12 at night. During the fashionable season, that is from April til the latter end of July, it frequently happens that the ordinary hours are greatly exceeded; if there is a drawing-room or grand fete, or mourning to be made, it often happens that the work goes on for 20 hours out of the 24, occasionally all night....The general result of the long hours and sedentary occupation is to impair seriously and very frequently to destroy the health of the young women. The digestion especially suffers, and also the lungs: pain to the side is very common, and the hands and feet die away from want of circulation and exercise, "never seeing the outside of the door from Sunday to Sunday." [One cause] is the short time which is allowed by ladies to have their dresses made.
Miss is sure that there are some thousands of young women employed in the business in London and in the country. If one vacancy were to occur now there would be 20 applicants for it. The wages generally are very low...Thinks that no men could endure the work enforced from the dress-makers."
[Source: Hellerstein, Hume & Offen, Victorian Women: A Documentary Accounts of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-Century England, France and the United States, Stanford University Press.]
This primary source shows the strenuous hours of labor women went through for the upper class ladies, their superiors. They did not allow much time for their dresses to be made, resulting in women staying at the sewing machine for days at a time. Their wages did not compensate for the number of hours that they had to work. Most ladies worked as seamstresses, to make some money outside of their husbands’ allowances. Since women were considered weaker than men, they didn’t complain about their less than scarce working conditions. These conditions affected the women’s health, like muscle cramps because they were not allowed to get up from their work and increase circulation in their bodies.
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Woman spinning cotton
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