2007-03-26 11:30:18 · 9 answers · asked by abigail<3 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Neccesity.
Women and Children who worked in the cities had to work in factories simply to get by. It's not like how it is today, there were no minimum wages a long time ago.... people simply were not paid enough to live even a decent life. There were also no child labor laws (or laws mandating education), so kids were allowed to work in factories too. I too have read the Jungle, and agree with the person above who mentioned that kids could fit back in the machines to do work - this is why they were a beneficial hire for the employers.
Why were they mostly women and children? It has nothing to do with agrarian society. If a family lived on a farm, everyone worked on the farm. If they lived in a city, chances are everyone worked in the city. Just do the math. In the average family back then you've got the husband, the wife, and two or three kids. The wife and 2 kids equal 3 while just the husband is 1... suggesting that 3/4 of all workers were either wives, widows, or children.
2007-03-26 11:44:07 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early Factories
2016-10-18 10:18:00 · answer #2 · answered by demers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the United States was still an agricultural nation, and most men were working on their farm fields....
"EARLY" factories, kids. That means roughly 1780 to 1850. It wasn't just numbers. Men had jobs on farms, manly, respectable jobs. Factory work was seen as wimp work. Women flocked to factory cities because they could earn a living on their own instead of becoming someone else's wife on some isolated farmstead. They saw economic opportunity. Did they life like they'd imagined they would? Of course not. Neither did most of the Gold Rush miners. Just because people are disappointed by reality doesn't negate the fact that they held a dream when they made an economic leap of faith...
2007-03-26 11:33:10 · answer #3 · answered by Dr_Adam_Bricker 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because children and women could be paid less than a man, increasing the profits of the factory.
2007-03-26 11:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
along w the previous reasons, sometimes children were better able to reach inside the machinery used at these factories, resulting in horrible manglings and loss of limbs n lives. anyone here read "the jungle"?
2007-03-26 11:37:42 · answer #5 · answered by carmen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many motives! *many adult adult males have been away at conflict. No husbands, no infants! *rationing! Many households could not have the money for yet another mouth to feed and people placed off having households (my grandparents have been in basic terms little ones because of this) *many did not choose to have little ones for the time of the conflict in basic terms because of the fact there replaced right into a conflict occurring and that they had to contribute to the conflict attempt so placed households aside. on the assessment, in Germany there replaced right into a toddler growth! Hitler's propaganda promoted great households and mothers earned rewards in correlation to how many little ones they had!
2016-10-20 00:02:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mainly because they were willing to work for lower wages than men were (same goes for why immigrants flocked to cities to work in factories). also, the men busier in the fields, where women/children served of little aid.
2007-03-26 11:54:32 · answer #7 · answered by hi_imamodel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the men were out working in the wars...and miness
2007-03-26 11:40:05 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because there was a draft and there was a shortage of men , we needed allot of raw material n men
2007-03-26 11:40:08 · answer #9 · answered by lrr 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋