USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Women and work in the 19th century They worked either in factories, or in domestic service for richer households or in family businesses. Many women also carried out home-based work such as finishing garments and shoes for factories, laundry, or preparation of snacks to sell in the market or streets.

Detailed explanation-2: -After the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. in the mid-1800s, some women went to work in factories alongside their families, sometimes with their children. In 1840, 10% of women had jobs outside the home, and by 1850 that number increased to 15%.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the 19th century progressed men increasingly commuted to their place of work – the factory, shop or office. Wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants.