From the 1880s to the 1930s, the cotton service in Japan and India went through the process of mechanization. Although both Japan and India gave low wages to workers and used their machines more for production, there were more female workers in Japan while India used mostly men. However, Japan had worse factory conditions.
Documents 3, 5, and 9 show the low wages the factory workers received in Japan and India during this time. Document 3 is the point of view of two Japanese women who recall their childhoods being factory workers. One girl said that they received no money in the first year of working, and in the third year they received 50 yen, which is almost the same as half a U.S. dollar. This shows that people who work in factories were
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In addition, document 3 also expresses that factory conditions in Japan were harsher than in India. Document 3, from the viewpoint of two Japanese women, describes their experiences in textile factories. The first woman recalls the lack of heat and food present in the factory compared to the large amount of labor executed by the women. The second woman discusses the illnesses people contracted which led to the death of her thirteen-year-old sister. This reveals the harsh conditions experienced in Japanese factories and that women mainly worked in these factories. Document 4 is from a Buddhist priest from a rural area of Japan from which many farm girls were sent to work in the mills around 1900. The priest discusses how the peasants in the rural area were poor and had little to eat, and that girls who went to work in the factories were the peasants’ only salvation because of the wages they received. This further emphasizes that the majority of women during this time were factory workers. Document 7 is a table based on data from a dissertation called “Industrialization and the Status of Women in Japan,” written in 1973. According to this table, from 1909 to 1934 there was a slight decrease in the percentage of female cotton textile laborers in India, and only around one-fifth of all women worked in cotton textile factories. However, in Japan …show more content…
It is also evident that more female workers and harsher conditions were present in Japan than in
If a worker whined about their low wage or the long hours spent working they would be fired, and the owners would hire a new worker. Most of the time the workers didn’t get any time off for breaks or even going to the bathrooms. It wasn’t just young women who had to work in the harsh factory conditions. Children also worked in the factory because their families need
Throughout Europe and Japan during the middle ages both adopted the governmental system of feudalism. Europe adopted the feudal system when Rome fell, and Japan adopted the feudal system when the Han dynasty fell. They both adopted the feudal system to fill the need for a governmental system when both previous empire fell. Though Japan and Europe both adopted the feudal system they both had their own versions of the feudal system. Feudal Europe and Japan had contrasting hierarchy structures, army types (builds, training, and roles), and their armies belief systems or codes were different.
The age range of the women workers were from age fifteen to age twenty-four and very few male workers worked in this factory. The reasoning for these women workers to work long, hard hours helped them by “sending brothers to high school, to art school, to dental college, to engineering courses” (p. 96). Most of the work was as simple as “cutting threads, which can be done by an unpracticed girl of fourteen” (p. 44). Despite the harsh conditions of this factory, they only paid their workers six dollars a week and extra money could be made if they worked the whole week. These workers would hunch over hefty and risky sewing machines that only worked by foot pedaling.
From the 1870’s to the 1890’s, millions of people were put out of work or received reduced pay. In the course of the second Industrial Revolution, the average pay per day was one dollar and twenty-five cents. Skilled workers received double that amount. Women and children weren’t paid as much as men. Women and children were paid about a
According to the chart in Japan 1892 “Average daily wage of a female silk factory worker is only 13 Sen.” (Doc C) female workers get pay only 13 sen a day. this amount of paid was not enough for living because at that time a pair of ladies indoor sandals already cost 7 Sen. It is just not right to pay the worker with little money especially when the workers spend all their day in the horrible factory conditions. A survey of the Japanese Silk Worker “70% said the pay was good and 0% said it was poor, overall experience 90% said it was positive.” (Doc F) . Almost everyone said the pay was decent and none of the workers were complaining about the wages.
However, in a way, she is telling the reader to think rationally and that there is no need for a case to be made - the factories are intrinsically evil. To support her article, Liebelson often cites statistics and uses numbers to aptly describe the nature of the situation. Most notably she cites the ages of the sumangali workers and statistics regarding money. She states that the girls can begin working as young as 13 and this number is repeated in different contexts multiple times to nail home the point of child labor. Making a child work all day long at such a young age, in an extremely dangerous environment to boot, paints a picture that Liebelson uses to her advantage.
Child labor was another problem presented at this time. At the rate they were going back in 1900, 26% of boys between ten and fifteen were already working, and for girls it was 10% (Background Essay). Child labor was increasing as fast as the children working were dying. An example of this tragic scenario was Dennis McKee, a 15-year-old boy who was smothered to death by coal (Document B). This boy had a family, and that family had to deal with the loss of their son, all to the fault of an industry that thought to use young, able-bodied boys for their work was a fantastic idea.
The Industrialization had bloom during the late 1800s early 1900s. This big growth was a positive and negative impact in the United States history. This began the devastating practice of child labor. Children would work in factories for very long hours be paid very low wages or not even be paid. According to Harold Goldstein, ‘’it had been accepted as a norm, employment of young children gradually came to be viewed as harmful and exploitative in the United States.’’
Many women took jobs as silk factory workers to get money for their families, but the low pay wasn’t very much help. Document C states that the average daily wage was about thirteen sen
Working in textile factories was unsafe for working class families because of the work environment they had to work in. Many workers had bad experiences in their time of employment. In the document “Testimony of Joseph Hebergam to the Sadler Committee” it says “Sadler: Did he tell you the cause of your illness? Hebergam: He told me that it was caused by the dust in the factories and from overwork and insufficient diet…”. This quote proves that the factories were unsafe to work in because it caused illnesses and even lead to death.
Mutsuhito. For both countries, textiles were very important to their growth and rise in power (Background). Although it may not seem like it, both country’s women workers had very comparable experiences. Female workers in Japan and England shared many similarities, including working conditions, gender roles, and financial struggles. The working conditions of these women were both strict, laborious, and lengthy.
American Women during World War 2 had many responsibilities at war, work, and home. But they did not have many equal rights compared to the rest of the society. The women’s rights and responsibilities topic is very interesting. One is understanding and knowing the history about the responsibilities women had to do and how hard working they were. This topic is very important because there was a big change in women’s rights and responsibilities during World War 2.
This goes along with the gender inequality within the household. They brought that attitude into the workforce which helped transition the gender hierarchy that existed in the household, into the factories and other production facilities. Ideas of women’s placement in society were underpinned by legal, political, and social practices which subordinated women. They were seen as less important. One circumstance that made women seem less powerful was how poorly they were paid compared to men.
The war had provided a variety of employment opportunities for women and the most common job for women was at home, working in factories and filling in positions for their husbands, fathers, and brothers in their absence. Although the highest demand for workers were in previously male-dominated
The world came across with lots of revolutions in terms of politic, social, and economic and so on. One of the most impressive and well-established revolution among these revolutions was industrial revolution. In fact, industrial revolution is a term which opened a new era in the world. As it related in the book of Charles More (2002) “Understanding the Industrial Revolution”; industrial revolution is different from the other revolutions, while others happened sudden or continued with a few years, industrial revolution was an unending process and it did not happened suddenly. During this unending process, women were affected both from negative and positive sides.