The Factory Girl and the Seamstress

The Factory Girl and the Seamstress
Title The Factory Girl and the Seamstress PDF eBook
Author Amal Amireh
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 212
Release 2021-12-24
Genre Art
ISBN 1136712607

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This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with their society's economic and social relaities. Against this view and to highlight the cultural importance of working-class women, this study argues that, in responding to industrialization, middle class writers such as Melville, Hawthorne, Fern, Davies, and Phelps used the figures of the factory worker and the seamstress to express their anxieties about unstable gender and class identitites. These fictional representations were influenced by, and contributed to, an important but understudied cultural debate about wage labor, working women, and class.

The Factory Girl and the Seamstress

The Factory Girl and the Seamstress
Title The Factory Girl and the Seamstress PDF eBook
Author Amal M. Amireh
Publisher
Total Pages 266
Release 1997
Genre American fiction
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Factory Girl

Factory Girl
Title Factory Girl PDF eBook
Author Barbara Greenwood
Publisher Kids Can Press
Total Pages 0
Release 2007-02-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781553376491

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At the dingy, overcrowded Acme Garment Factory, Emily Watson stands for eleven hours a day clipping threads from blouses. Every time the boss passes, he shouts at her to snip faster. But if Emily snips too fast, she could ruin the garment and be docked pay. If she works too slowly, she will be fired. She desperately needs this job. Without the four dollars a week it brings, her family will starve. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more. Rarely seen archival photos accompany this story of the past as only Barbara Greenwood can tell it.

Factory Girl

Factory Girl
Title Factory Girl PDF eBook
Author Josanne La Valley
Publisher HarperCollins
Total Pages 280
Release 2017-01-10
Genre Young Adult Fiction
ISBN 054469953X

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In order to save her family’s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minority (Uyghur) background. Sustained by her bond with other Uyghur girls, Roshen is resolved to endure all to help her family and ultimately her people. A workplace survival story, this gritty, poignant account focuses on a courageous teen and illuminates the value—and cost—of freedom.

The Factory Girls

The Factory Girls
Title The Factory Girls PDF eBook
Author Christine Siefert
Publisher Zest Books
Total Pages 180
Release 2017-05-30
Genre Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN 1942186452

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The twentieth century ushered in a new world filled with a dazzling array of consumer goods. For the first time in American history, fashion could be mass produced. Even the poorest immigrant girls could afford a blouse or two. But these same immigrant teens toiled away in factories in appalling working conditions. Their hard work and sacrifice lined the pockets of greedy factory owners who were almost exclusively white men. The tragic Triangle Waist Factory fire in 1911 resulted in the deaths of over a hundred young people, mostly immigrant girls, who were locked in the factory. That fire signaled a turning point in American history. This book looks at the events leading up to the fire, including a close look at how fashion and the desire for consumer goods - driven in part by the excess of the Gilded Age - created an unsustainable culture of greed. Told from the perspective of six young women who lived the story, this book reminds us why what we buy and how we vote really matter.

The Factory Girl

The Factory Girl
Title The Factory Girl PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Total Pages
Release 1830
Genre Women
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Factory Girls

Factory Girls
Title Factory Girls PDF eBook
Author Paul Chrystal
Publisher Pen and Sword History
Total Pages 281
Release 2022-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 1399011952

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Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century. Without women there would have been no pre-industrial cottage industries, without women the Industrial Revolution would not have been nearly as industrial and nowhere near as revolutionary. Many women, and children, were obliged to take up work in the mills and factories – long hours, dangerous, often toxic conditions, monotony, bullying, abuse and miserly pay were the usual hallmarks of a day’s work - before they headed homeward to their other job: keeping home and family together. This long overdue and much needed book also covers the social reformers, the role of feminism and activism and the various Factory Acts and trade unionism. We examine how women and children suffered chronic occupational diseases and disabling industrial injuries - life changing and life shortening – and often a one way ticket to the workhouse. The book concludes with a survey of the art, literature and the music which formed the soundtrack for the factory girl and the climbing boys.