WATCH: NEH Media Resource/Podcast: Backstory: Women at Work https://edsitement.neh.gov/media-resources/backstory-women-work
READ: Document: Letters to the Voice of Industry (1845), Women and the National Experience, 40-42; Essays: Annelise Orleck,“From the Russian Pale to labor
Organizing in New York City,” Women’s America. 386-402; Ruth Schwartz Cowan, “The ‘Industrial Revolution’ in the Home: Household Technology and Social
Change in the Twentieth Century,” Ibid 484-492
WRITE a 250 word response to the prompt, “How did women’s workplace experiences in the past compare with those in our own time?”
