Summary of Women and Work and Early Labor Movement

Women and Work

• Gender norms clashed with women's work reality.

Labor and Social Critique

• Labor movements challenged individualism, sought social change, and linked economic security to freedom.

Market Revolution Effects

• Market Revolution boosted white men's individualism, limited others, caused loss of freedom, and increased wealth inequality.

Early Labor Movement

• Craftsmen formed unions for better wages, hours, and worker rights, seeking economic independence.

Women's Labor and Economic Independence

• Women faced job/legal limits; many worked for survival; middle-class freedom linked to not working themselves.

Concept of Family Wage

• 'Family wage' concept promoted men as main earners, shaping gender roles in labor.