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Women's Jobs in the Industrial Revolution
In 19 forty two, westing house electric and manufacturing company hired an artist named j howard miller to create a poster thay could hang in their factories. It's a famous image of a white woman with her hair pulled up under a red band anna,. is flexing her bicep and looking directly at the viewer. She has a full face of make up and a sort of speech bubble over her head with the words, we can do it. The poster reportedly hung in westing house factories for only two weeks, and wasn't well known at all until the 19 eighties, when it re surfaced in an article about recruiting and moral posters.
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