Women and the Effect of Industrial Revolution

The industrial revolution was a great prison term of change for men, the economy, domestic life, and brought the change in the role of women in society to the forefront. As time evolves, so must the lifestyles we as a society lead. This was no antithetic during the industrial revolution in Britain and France. Through disclose this paper I give begin to discuss how the impact of industrialization effected the flip in labor from domestic to pulverisation, the new role of the mother in an industrialise family and the issue of pedagogy in the lives of ordinary people, as discussed in the memoirs we confuse read in class.One of the main effects of industrialization was the switch in labor from the women working at home base in a domestic environment to that w here her labor brought in wages to the family. Suzanne Voilquin speaks of this in her memoirs A Daughter of the People, And so, at the end of the first week, we were very elevated to to deposit on our stupefys mantle piec e the eighteen francs we takeed as wages.(Voilquin, 112). Throughout her story, she tells of how through the ability of her and her sister being fit to work, they were able to support the family while her father was infirm. Without this opportunity, the family may have been put out onto the streets. It is through these two womens effort that the family survived.With the women now being able to earn wages out of the home, the role of the mother greatly changed within the home of the industrialized family. Before the revolution, children were raised(a) on the plantation with the mother, father, and siblings as discussed in Agricols, Memoirs of a Compagnon. In regards to his fathers plantation moreover he made good use of his childrens labor. He wanted to make us hard workers rather than gentlemen and ladies, and in this he did right.(117). We have also learned form this era that when women moved to factories, newborn children no longer had the opportunity to reside with the mother. Infants were sent off to a wet nurse, so that the women could return to work as soon as possible after the birth. This provided a new environment in which children were raised however the pros and cons of this new lifestyle varied.This brings me to my final point of the issue of education in the industrial revolution. It seems that throughout the memoirs the common theme is that labor was precious over education. Most children had no education at all and went to the factory as soon as they were able, while children who had a little knowledge rarely went beyond the third grade. Jeanne Bouvier speaks of this in My Memoirs, after her first communion Its a embarrass you cannot leave her longer. Shes very gifted. She even works hard when it comes to manual tasks.(34).It is shown here that girls were not inferior to boys and were just as capable in school. This did naught for the stigma that was already set on women. Many times the father was not willing to pay for his daughters to go to school just the sons were applaudable of the cost of education. My mother remunerative the fees for her daughters with the money she earnedmy father paid only for his sons.(Perdiguier 119). Obviously, the emphasis was primed(p) on manual labor during this revolution, for it brought in money that the family may so desperately need.The industrial revolution placed the ordinary worker into a mirade of new, enterprising, and yet sometimes compromising situations. Workers were face up with new problems, but also with opportunities that had never been available before. It is through their argue that we are the society we know today. It is through the past that we can organize our future.