other families. To this isolation were added serious stresses within the family. Not all its members were engaged, as formerly, as a group doing essential farming tasks, but instead, the members, were mostly employed in different occupations' earing salaries based on certain considerations such as youth, output and vigor.In consequence to this, the rights and authority by which the elder generation had traditionally maintained their status and self-respect within the family, were destroyed. Moreover, the working class faced even more serious problems which affected their standard of living owing to the extremely low wages they earned and the state of exploitation that was imposed upon them. Although in an agrarian society the farm workers might be exploited through the tenure of land, yet there was a kind of limit imposed by nature upon the deterioration of their conditions of
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Smith , The Other Nation-The Poor in the English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s , ( Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1980 ) p. 25 .
48 As discussed by Dunbar , p. 156 .
49 Ibid. ,p.50
50 Checkland , p. 248 .
51 Margaret Hewitt , Wives and Mothers in Victorian Industry , ( Rockliff , London , 1958 ) p. 24. Moreover, when they find themselves dependent on their family for their living due to a period of unemployment, they realize that they have lost their status and position in the family along with their self-respect. Consequently, the result will be the dissolution of the integrity of the family in general . While the Industrial Revolution was providing more work for working class women both inside and outside the home, it was taking it away from those women who were better off. The fact was that just as domestic industry was a partnership in which the wife assisted the husband, so too, most businesses, professions and trades in the old society were partnerships in which the husband and wife worked as a
Smith , The Other Nation-The Poor in the English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s , ( Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1980 ) p. 25 .
48 As discussed by Dunbar , p. 156 .
49 Ibid. ,p.50
50 Checkland , p. 248 .
51 Margaret Hewitt , Wives and Mothers in Victorian Industry , ( Rockliff , London , 1958 ) p. 24. Moreover, when they find themselves dependent on their family for their living due to a period of unemployment, they realize that they have lost their status and position in the family along with their self-respect. Consequently, the result will be the dissolution of the integrity of the family in general . While the Industrial Revolution was providing more work for working class women both inside and outside the home, it was taking it away from those women who were better off. The fact was that just as domestic industry was a partnership in which the wife assisted the husband, so too, most businesses, professions and trades in the old society were partnerships in which the husband and wife worked as a