Gendering Labor History: A Reflective Essay of What I Read



Gendering Labor History: A Reflective Essay of What I Read

In the pre-industrial period, most people—women, men, daughters, and sons—worked in homes, small workshops, and on farms close to home. Although tasks were divided along age and gender lines, nearly everyone was considered a worker. Beginning in the 1820s in the United States (earlier in Britain and France, later in Germany and Italy), paid labor markets developed on a large scale, as businesses increasingly separated from homes and new types of employers sought new sources of labor—people who were free to work ...