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Economy

Warpy

(113,131 posts)

2. Mosse has a genius for understatement

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Original post)

Fri Feb 3, 2023, 12:37 AM

Feb 2023

One reason male workers didn't get completely alienated from society is that they had wives and children. Most of them also got dragged into the community afforded by churches one day a week. If they weren't anchored by these things (and even if they were, some of them) their only alternative was the saloon, something not terribly compatible with a continued work life.

Women factory workers, if they didn't live with their parents, were practically cloistered by mill owners, who didn't want pregnant workers shaming them. Yeah, that's how they thought about it. Women workers who got married were out the door immediately, off to do all the unpaid donkey work marriage entailed.

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