Women and Work
What was the poorest paid job?
Slop work
Why did women have limited careers?
They lacked education.
What was Josephine Butler's group called?
The shrieking sisters.
What were the two divisive issues in socialism?
Nationalism and Revisionism.
Who had the largest trade union?
Britain.
Why did men want to keep women out of work.
They wanted to ensure moral and physical well-being of families.
Why did women want these jobs?
These jobs offered freedom from their domestic patterns.
Why did girls become prostitutes?
Employment was unstable and wages were low. Girls were no longer protected by their family or village community and church
What does SPD stand for?
The Social Democratic Party.
What did trade unions succeed in?
Bettering living and working conditions of working class.
What ideology was enforced about women?
domesticity: women should remain at home to bear and nurture kids and not be allowed in industrial workforce.
Why were women hired for these?
A shortage of male workers and a need for low wage workers.
Where were women sent who had venereal disease?
They had to go to lock hospitals where they were given moral instructions.
What was the SPD's main goal?
They wanted to improve the working class.
What led to the establishment of trade unions of both groups in London?
Walkout of female workers in the match industry and by dockworkers.
What is sweating?
It's a subcontracting of piecework usually in tailoring trade and it was done at home since it required few skills or equipment.
What jobs could women do?
They could be nurses, secretaries, teachers, and did civil jobs.
How did Josephine's group get their name?
They discussed sexual matters in public.
Who led the SPD?
Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel.
What did early anarchists believe?
People were inherently good but had been corrupted by state and society. True free could be achieved only by abolishing the state and all existing social institutions.
What was the book Eduard Bernstein wrote?
Evolutionary Socialism.
Why were there so many white collar jobs?
The development of larger industrial plants and the expansion of government services
What did Josephine find unfair?
Laws punished women for venereal diseases and not men.
Who led French socialism?
Jean Jaures.
What did Michael Bakunin believes would happen?
Small groups of trained revolutionaries could start so much violence that the state and its institutions would disintegrate