Brief Intro: The Home as Workplace is an article by Bettina Bradbury, in which she discusses how the beginning of industrialization changed how families made a living. Industrialization grew from around the 1850's to the end of the century making families become dependant on a wage (177). Wage earning altered the family dynamic in terms of daily tasks and jobs having to be preformed. Men and older children began earning wages in factories and other industry occupations and women had to perform particular responsibilities within the home (177).
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Bradbury's principle argument is that.. The thesis is slightly hard to find as it tends to blend into the topic of this article and does not distinctly stand out or is discussed …show more content…
Documents written by the people who worked for the wages during industrialization would help give the reader a more detailed article. Although, she notes that it was challenging to find sources for her article as previous historians tend to have written the majority of their work regarding farm and Pioneer women and less about newly emerging towns in Canada do to manufacturing (177). This article also would have benefited from female perspectives as even Bradbury notes the lack of voice and knowledge about the lives of women written by women of that time. The most “ideal source” in my opinion would be journal entries of women and young girls about that it was like to live and work in a time where working for a wage was introduced. This source would reveal a raw and unedited account of the true struggles and perhaps hardships of a family during industrialization. This would provide an uncovered new source of information, information that would not be found in a census or statistics given from charities and other organizations. Female sources would contain the everyday hardships not just large overall themes or issue that get published in a …show more content…
The reader gets an broader understanding of every aspect of their lives but no specifics are provided. Perhaps if the “ideal” primary sources of journals were available this article could be focused in on specif difficulties for a deeper understanding. Bradbury admits “rarely do we see things from a women's point of view- they do not underline the important of such labour” (177). Some directions for future research would be to discuss a specific area or town and not just a wider province as a whole. This allows for a deeper analysis as each town at the time had different manufacturing that effected wage earning and in relation the
Isolate the Thesis:
Bradbury's principle argument is that.. The thesis is slightly hard to find as it tends to blend into the topic of this article and does not distinctly stand out or is discussed …show more content…
Documents written by the people who worked for the wages during industrialization would help give the reader a more detailed article. Although, she notes that it was challenging to find sources for her article as previous historians tend to have written the majority of their work regarding farm and Pioneer women and less about newly emerging towns in Canada do to manufacturing (177). This article also would have benefited from female perspectives as even Bradbury notes the lack of voice and knowledge about the lives of women written by women of that time. The most “ideal source” in my opinion would be journal entries of women and young girls about that it was like to live and work in a time where working for a wage was introduced. This source would reveal a raw and unedited account of the true struggles and perhaps hardships of a family during industrialization. This would provide an uncovered new source of information, information that would not be found in a census or statistics given from charities and other organizations. Female sources would contain the everyday hardships not just large overall themes or issue that get published in a …show more content…
The reader gets an broader understanding of every aspect of their lives but no specifics are provided. Perhaps if the “ideal” primary sources of journals were available this article could be focused in on specif difficulties for a deeper understanding. Bradbury admits “rarely do we see things from a women's point of view- they do not underline the important of such labour” (177). Some directions for future research would be to discuss a specific area or town and not just a wider province as a whole. This allows for a deeper analysis as each town at the time had different manufacturing that effected wage earning and in relation the