Grade update

I have now graded Hyun Jin, Joon Hong, Vlad, Bubble, Yi,  Kristyna and Alessio.   Please note your grade and if you would like to know your summative grade thus far, please see me personally.  In addition, I would like to remind you that this week your storyboards should be in and your research should be completed.  You will have Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to complete the above tasks.  Please, for your own sakes, do not limit your working hours to class time.  If you want anything above a C  you must put a serious amount of your own time into your project. 

Here is a great site for research.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jbs/currant

Grade update

Thus far, I have read and graded Sang Hag,  Ajnai, Elle, Daniel, and Ido, please refer to my postings.  The rest of your posts will be graded by tomorrow night.  Thus far, I have noticed many of you have struggled with the concepts of a summary and what that all includes and the fragile line between summarizing versus plagiarism (idea along with actual).  We will be working on this skill, as plagiarism is unacceptable and you must learn to be able to articulate your ideas in your OWN words.  For those of you who this pertains to, please take the opportunity to rewrite your article for full credit.  If you have any questions, please see me. 

 For those of you whom I have not yet graded, if my above words apply to you in any way, I would encourage you to fix the problem before tomorrow.

Yi Lin - Women Miners in the English Coal Pits

The article talks about female miners working in the mines. The girls would not have different clothes with the boys, and had to perform regular underground work, same number of hours as boys and men. There is no distinction of sex. The men would work in the mines without any clothing, working with the girls of 6 yrs old to women of 21 yrs old.
The girls would work at a place where was not 2 feet high; some of them were at the age of puberty. Their sex was recognized only by their breasts. They had to go into the mines and fill the corves 18 or 20 times a day. Often, the men would force the girls to have a relationship with them.
Betty Harris went into the mines when she was married. She works from 6am to 6pm, with an hour of lunch time. The mine was always wet; her clothes would be wet all day long. Her cousin would look after her children while she goes to work. She receives family abuses from her husband when she gets home.
Patience Kershaw was another example of the female miners, she was 17, and she had to work from 5 o’clock in the morning to 5 o’clock at night.

Hyun Jin - Women miners in the English Coal Pits

In the colliers, girls and boys didn't have andy different clothes to put on and nobody really cared on what they wore or even how much they covered. J. C. Symons, the sub-commissioner who visited the Hunshelf Colliery, talks about how young girls worked in the same places as boys and being stark naked down to the waist and many of the girls working there were in the age of puberty and the only way of recognizing their gender was by their breasts. Most of the men there were also stark naked or had a flannel waistcoast to cover themselves. The girl's clothes, which was mainly just a trousers, had holes in them and Symons says that it's as bad as a brothel because of the indecency and the lack of covering. The girls had to go 15-20times a day into a dark chamber where men who's either stark naked or has only a flannel waistcoast to cover themselves are which indicates that there could be several sexual relationships that is wrong morally.
Two examples of female miners would be Betty Harris and Patience Kershaw. Betty entered the collier when she got married. She neither reads nor writes. She works from 6am to 6 pm and gets an hour to eat her dinner at noon. She wears a belt around her waist and her work is always wet so she is always soaked all day long. Her cousin looks after her two children and her husband sometimes beat her because she wasn't ready. Patience Kershaw at the age of 17, goes to eh pit at 5 am until 5 pm.

The life of the Industrial workers in 19 century

The article about a life of the Industrial workers around 19 century describe to us a lot of important and also interesting things about the situation and conditions during this time inside the factories. We can read at the article about the conversations of few people, who described to us their's life during their's work, their's conditions, which were extremely bad. If you read the article you will see, that all these people who worked at the factories or some like that started go to work very early, like at age 6-8, which must be horrible. Usually they worked around 16 and more hours per one day. They worked for a little profit(money). Everybody people from this article lived far away from the place where worked every day, probably like 2 and more miles from their work.
They did not have a time for their family, when they came to home, they just looked for a food and than hurry up go to bed because in early morning they must go to the work again! Also if they came just little bit late than at the right time they were beaten and punished from a merchants, and it happened very often. Also people who worked in the factories or some like that, they had only like one hour for their food(lunch). Huge problem was also the diseases for example the black plague was very famous at this time. This usually happened inside the factories, because they must go to the work even than they were sick between the workers it was spread and many people(workers) died.
Also was described at the article the conditions before and during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution probably should happen, but it not took only advantages and goods for us life. Majority of people at this time starved and smarted because of food, conditions, diseases, no money, everything what people usually must do was their job. They did not have a time for anything, also mostly people could not have a good education because they did not have a time for studying.
People who told us their real story told almost everything the same like others, which was that they worked usually like 16-18 hours per day, the interval for their food was like just one hour per all their day in the factories, they were beaten by merchants, they lived far away from their factories, they did not have a time be with own family, no education, diseases etc. So if we will summary this time for people who must work etc, so it was very bad time period but for a new generation and technology it was perfect.

Bubble: Lowell Mill Girls

It is a autobiography of Harriet Hanson Robinson who was the wife of a newspaper editor, who worked in the factory from the age of 10 to 24 in the textile Mills of Lowell in Massachusetts.

She is basically talking about her early ages which she spend working in the factories during 1832-1848 explaining the general living conditions of the woman at that time from her point of view. The working conditions were difficult. They had to work very long hours. They were treated like slaves without respect. The little money they were earning couldn't be spent by them but rather spent for the education of the male member of the family. Unfortunately girls had very limited education opportunities (only seven vocations school were in New England). They had no legal rights either. The law did not recognize woman as a money spender. A father could exclude his daughter from his will. There were other jobs available for woman such as being a servant, tailor or teacher however the money earned was comparably less. Therefore a lot of people from distant places came to Lowell to work ın the millsthey were working long hours at the mill despite their young age. Even by law working hours decreased to 10, in practice it was not applied.

The mill owners decided to cut the rages and the girls decided to go on a strike. In 1836 one of the girls made a speech in public stating to resist wage cut. This was the firs time a woman made a speech to the public. However the strike was not successful as they went back to work with reduced wages. This was an early attempt and many other strikes followed.