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Why 'Progress' is Bad for Women - Mary Harrington
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Women's Rights and the Industrial Revolution
In the middle ages, most work happened in the home and both sexes worked. But now if you think about what happens with industrialization, suddenly textile making is done by a heavy, expensive industrial machinery which has to be centralized in a factory. So instead of women doing it at home, they have to travel some distance away from their families for 12-hour shifts that are very hard on them. You know, even if you're a woman and you want to face this decision to make textiles in the workplace, you've got to leave your family behind. What do you do? It's a problem that you never had to face before. I'm not just stuck at home on your
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