Working Women after World War I

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This paper examines how the end of World War I saw the first crucial advancement toward female enfranchisement. It looks at how, in the first half of the 20th century, the capitalist industrial revolution in the production of textiles showed the way to an augmented degree of production. It discusses how this industry, with larger-scale food processing, as well as garment manufacturing and non-revolutionized domestic service, presented wage jobs for women, first and foremost. It shows how, as the capitalist market economy developed, women were brought into wage work only in certain separated segments. It evaluates how, though even badly compensated with inadequate or interrupted work eras, single women almost certainly united somewhat during this period and how married women, nonetheless, continued to put up with the most important burden of non-market production, raising families.

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"In speaking of women, an association less structurally organized than the working class but also a combination of very varied strands. Women prepared within political parties, as well as trade unions. They shaped feminist associations, civil rights associations, as well as community-based reform coalitions addressing subjects such as abortion and birth control, housing, prices, public health, alcohol, suffrage, and hygiene. Most prominently, it was the changing memberships, as well as addressees, the impulsive expressions for problems and reasons, the regular emergence of new actors and vanguards that made the women's association emerge exaggeratedly new, considerably varied, and also quite incompetent (Donald, 1963)."

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