what's goin' on?
Where do I start? I watch a lot of early morning PBS and today it was about the Lowell Factory Girls and the contribution they made to the USA. This was for high school teachers to learn how to present the topic in their classrooms. First the good news. It's nice women's labor is being recognized. But the sweatshop (word never used in the program) conditions set up to efficiently maximize profits for early industrialists aka the people that were "making America great." The thinking that promoted ideas of class, ethnic background and gender roles and ranks was and is responsible for much of the illness and inequity in the world today. Actual letters, business stats and the like were used to understand this time in the history and yet the generalizing of the individual experience was part of the pro and con debate the teachers presented to familiarize themselves with the issues. The Prof in charge brought up how it allowed these women to start earning money and g