WORLD HISTORY

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
For many rural women, the first step into city life was
A
working in factories.
B
living with a family member in town.
C
working in domestic service.
D
finding a room in a boarding house.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -domestic system, also called putting-out system, production system widespread in 17th-century western Europe in which merchant-employers “put out” materials to rural producers who usually worked in their homes but sometimes laboured in workshops or in turn put out work to others.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women in the working class, worked during the Industrial Revolution with lower wages than men and often times started working as children. Women during this time also had to be the caretaker of the house, so they might have worked all day and night to keep up their daily routine.

Detailed explanation-3: -As wage labor supplanted agricultural labor, growing numbers of women entered the paid workforce while unpaid housework took on new cultural and economic significance. In a very straightforward way, the industrial revolution prompted women to enter the paid workforce.

Detailed explanation-4: -They often took jobs as maids, cooks, and other servants, but also found work in the factories, typically the textile mills. These new opportunities came at a cost however, and losing limbs to the machinery was common for women and children.

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