Orphan Trains
The main point of the documentary on orphan trains is child welfare and the method that was used in 1859 where children from an urban city that were homeless and poor were gathered up and put in homes and the idea of Charles Lauren Brace was to put them on a train and find good farming Christian families from the western states to raise these children. Some of the misconceptions that were faced with this idea was that the child will be better off in the homes that they are placed in, but, that was not true because, in some instances the child would run away or in some cases was killed by the families they were placed in.
In most cases, the idea was successful because, the program produced two state governors, but, there was stigmatism for the children who were known to be adopted in the community they were placed in. The …show more content…
The assumption was the idea that if the women kept on complaining about their wages and hours they there were only biting the hand that fed them. Which was a tool of intimidation the textile industry used on them because of they complaint too much they would just go ahead and fire them and bring in someone new to take her place.
Summarizing the film was the triangle shirt waist factory burned down, killing 146 garment workers 123 women and 23 men, because, the owners lock the door so that the workers will not take breaks. Shortly after the fire the women in the other factories led by Clara Lemlick unionize and demanded better wages, shorter working hours, and safer work environment. The textile industry retaliated by intimidation but, it did not work, so one by one the factories ended up settling with the unions. Even after being convicted the two owners were never convicted for the deaths of all those
The main point of the documentary on orphan trains is child welfare and the method that was used in 1859 where children from an urban city that were homeless and poor were gathered up and put in homes and the idea of Charles Lauren Brace was to put them on a train and find good farming Christian families from the western states to raise these children. Some of the misconceptions that were faced with this idea was that the child will be better off in the homes that they are placed in, but, that was not true because, in some instances the child would run away or in some cases was killed by the families they were placed in.
In most cases, the idea was successful because, the program produced two state governors, but, there was stigmatism for the children who were known to be adopted in the community they were placed in. The …show more content…
The assumption was the idea that if the women kept on complaining about their wages and hours they there were only biting the hand that fed them. Which was a tool of intimidation the textile industry used on them because of they complaint too much they would just go ahead and fire them and bring in someone new to take her place.
Summarizing the film was the triangle shirt waist factory burned down, killing 146 garment workers 123 women and 23 men, because, the owners lock the door so that the workers will not take breaks. Shortly after the fire the women in the other factories led by Clara Lemlick unionize and demanded better wages, shorter working hours, and safer work environment. The textile industry retaliated by intimidation but, it did not work, so one by one the factories ended up settling with the unions. Even after being convicted the two owners were never convicted for the deaths of all those