1. We, as students of women's history, can't seem to escape "Domesticity." How does domesticity play a role in shaping women's experiences, women's concerns, or women's responses as they grappled with labor conditions, racism, urban crises and more? Consider one of our topics this week–Black women's labor and reform, women's labor and union activity, or middle class women's reform. "Cross reference" between groups if the connections occur to you and make clear and explicit reference to the readings using examples and quotations in your answer.
2. How do strikes happen? Can you use your learning about strikes in this week's reading to come up with a recipe? Use examples from the reading so that your ingredients are understandable. You may focus on one strike from a specific reading or look for common ingredients in all readings, using examples and quotations.
Women’s Labor & Reform 1865-1910s
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I. Black Women’s Labor Force Participation
A. How would Southern society organize labor? 1. Recall women’s work under slavery
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/delta-and-pine-company-african-ameri can-sharecropper-lonnie-fair-family
I. Black Women’s Labor Force Participation
A. How would Southern society organize labor? 1. Recall women’s work under slavery 2. Conflict over women’s labor
a. For whom? b. Where? c. Occupations
3. Migration–urban centers and the North
a. Schooling for the next generation b. Black Community life c. Emerging Elites
African American Population Map 1890 Census
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african- american-odyssey/reconstruction.ht ml
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II Black Women’s Labor Force Participation and 19th c. Developments
A. Emergence of a Black Professionals B. Black Women and “Respectability” C. Black Women and Reform 1. Universal Suffrage 2. “Uplift” 3. Reform and Black Women’s Suffrage
II Black Women’s Labor Force Participation and 19th c. Developments
A. Emergence of a Black Professionals B. Black Women and “Respectability” C. Black Women and Reform 1. Universal Suffrage 2. “…a question of race I let the lesser question of sex go. But the white women all go for sex letting the race occupy a minor
position. Being black means that every white including every working class woman, can discriminate against you.” Frances Harper
3. “Uplift” 4. Reform and Black Women’s Suffrage 5. NACW: "the resources and energies of scores of local and regional clubs into one strong
organization in order to attack the prevailing negative image of black womanhood." (1896)
II. Women’s Wage Labor and Union Organization
A. Lowell: Early Factory Employment & Protest 1. Workforce 2. Work Conditions 3. Workplace Consciousness & Organized Protest B. Women’s Employment after the Civil War 1. Changes a. Civil War
b. Immigration c. “Scientific Management”
2. Wage-earning Daughters
https://www.nps.gov/lowe/learn/historyculture/robinson.htm
III Women’s Wage Labor and Union Organization
A. Unions 1. Knights of Labor 2. AFL B. Women’s Trade Union League C. Women in the Garment Industry 1. ILGWU/Uprising of the 20,000 2. Triangle shirtwaist fire 3. Precedents
1886 Women’s Delegates to the KOL convention
https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a14849/
https://www.nps.gov/lowe/learn/historyculture/convention_1910.htm
III. Middle Class Women’s Reform
A. Women’s Club Movement 1. Changes a. Women’s Education b. Smaller families c. Rising expectations
B. Self Improvement Clubs
1. Education 2. Awareness & Consciousness 3. General Federation of Women’s Clubs DANTE IS DEAD. He HAS BEEN DEAD FOR SEVERAL CENTURIES AND I THINK IT IS TIME THAT WE DROPPED THE STUDY OF HIS INFERNO AND TURNED OUR ATTENTION TO OUR OWN
A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. May we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its manifold activities?
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Title Citation
How Did Cross Class Alliances Shape the1910 Chicago Garment Workers Strike?
(Primary Sources)
Karen Pastorello, How Did Cross-Class Alliances Shape the 1910 Chicago Garment Workers' Strike? (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York, Binghamton, 2005, originally published 2005), 200 page(s),
“Feminism or Unionism? The New York Women’s Trade Union League and the Labor Movement.” (a secondary source so not a candidate for primary source analysis)
Nancy Schrom Dye,“Feminism or Unionism? The New York Women’s Trade Union League and the Labor Movement.” Feminist Studies 3, no. 1/2 (1975): 111–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/3518959
Where are the organized Women Workers? (a secondary source, not a candidate for primary source analysis)
Alice Kessler-Harris, “‘Where Are the Organized Women Workers?’” Feminist Studies 3, no. 1/2 (1975): 92–110. https://doi.org/10.2307/3518958.
“The Need for Settlement Work For the City Negro” (Please note this is a primary source document that contains a word employed by Blacks at the turn of the century. As scholars today, students and faculty should use Black or African American.)
(A Primary Source)
Fannie Barrier Williams, “The Need of Social Settlement Work For the City Negro,” in Southern Workman, Vol. 33, no. 9, September 1904, pp. 501-06, 6
Fannie Barrier Williams: At the Intersections of Region, Race and Reform ((
(A secondary source).
Fannie Barrier Williams: At the Intersections of Region, Race and Reform
written by Wanda A. Hendricks, fl. 1998-2014 (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street, 2014)
Susan Ware, American Women’s History: A Very Short Introduction, 50-74
Ware, Susan. 2015. American Women’s History: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press.
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