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Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. [1][2] These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. She is widely recognized in the "We ...
Radium painters working in a factory The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint. The incidents occurred at three factories in the United States: one in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917; one in Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s; and one in Waterbury ...
was probably not interpreted by the factory workers as empowering to women alone; they had been subjected to a series of paternalistic, controlling posters promoting management authority, employee capability and company unity, and the workers would likely have understood the image to mean "Westinghouse Employees Can Do It", all working together ...
The Lowell mill girls would work 12-14 hours a day in terrible conditions. The factories were dangerous and would put the girls health in jeopardy. Along with the factories being unsafe, the girls dormitories were crowded and unsanitary. While the factories had many dangerous aspects it is hard to view them as completely negative.
Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work, that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. [3] Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation worldwide, [4][5] although these laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, family duties ...
Outside agriculture, it gradually declined in the early 20th century, except in the South which added children in textile and other industries. Child labor remained common in the agricultural sector until compulsory school laws were enacted by the states. In the North state laws prohibited work in mines and later in factories.
Since most working age men were joining the military to fight in the war, women were required to take on the factory jobs that were traditionally held by men. [2] By the end of the war, there were almost three million women working in factories, around a third of whom were employed in the manufacture of munitions. Working conditions were often extremely hazardous and the women worked long ...
Mule scavenger. Part of an 1835 engraving showing a mule scavenger at work. Scavengers were employed in 18th and 19th century in cotton mills, predominantly in the UK and the United States, to clean and recoup the area underneath a spinning mule. The cotton wastage that gathered on the floor was seen as too valuable for the owners to leave and ...