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Página 113
... responsibility was essential to the preser- vation of the race . Primitive man and primitive woman could go through long periods of fasting , but not so their children . The mother's maternal instinct prompted her to supply their wants ...
... responsibility was essential to the preser- vation of the race . Primitive man and primitive woman could go through long periods of fasting , but not so their children . The mother's maternal instinct prompted her to supply their wants ...
Página 119
... responsibility . New labor - saving methods were employed in agriculture , making it possible to meet the increased demand for agricul- tural products . But not so with the in - door work . New wants arose calling for a greater variety ...
... responsibility . New labor - saving methods were employed in agriculture , making it possible to meet the increased demand for agricul- tural products . But not so with the in - door work . New wants arose calling for a greater variety ...
Página 129
... responsibility , is difficult to say . It is certainly more convenient for women not to assume responsibilities for out - door work when they have to care for small children ; and what may be at- tributed to an exercise of authority of ...
... responsibility , is difficult to say . It is certainly more convenient for women not to assume responsibilities for out - door work when they have to care for small children ; and what may be at- tributed to an exercise of authority of ...
Página 130
... responsibility for the welfare of his working people . It was his recognized duty to care for them when in distress . Although this system of industry centered great power in the hands of a few , and admitted of great abuse , it ...
... responsibility for the welfare of his working people . It was his recognized duty to care for them when in distress . Although this system of industry centered great power in the hands of a few , and admitted of great abuse , it ...
Página 137
... responsibility are likely to lessen , and he works irregularly or spends more on himself . There are , of course , many families in which this united income is needed , when the man's illness or incapacity makes it imperative for the ...
... responsibility are likely to lessen , and he works irregularly or spends more on himself . There are , of course , many families in which this united income is needed , when the man's illness or incapacity makes it imperative for the ...
Términos y frases comunes
advantage authority birth-rate business world census cent civilization clothing conservatism conspicuous consumption consumption countries culture custom decrease degree demand depends divorce divorce-rate DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY domestic domestic system early economic employment enter evolution existing factory family ties female forced greater habits household husband importance income increase individual industrial changes industrial field Industrial Revolution infanticide interests labor large number leisure class less machine industry maintain male marriage married women modern monogamy moral mother natural environment nature necessity number of women occupations omic plane of living political rights polygamy possess practical primitive production property rights protection Pure Sociology race relations responsibility rights of women says social classes Social Democracy social institutions social status society Sociology standard status of women struggle subsistence tend tendency tion Toynbee tribe true tyranny unit virtue wages wealth wife wives woman WOMEN AND ECONOMIC York
Pasajes populares
Página 106 - The gynaecocentric theory is the view that the female sex is primary and the male secondary in the organic scheme, that originally and normally all things center, as it were, about the female, and that the male, though not necessary in carrying out the scheme, was developed under the operation of the principle of advantage to secure organic progress through the crossing of strains.
Página 132 - It is thus seen that the wages paid for unskilled labour in York are insufficient to provide food, shelter, and clothing adequate to maintain a family of moderate size in a state of bare physical efficiency.
Página 151 - Under the requirement of conspicuous consumption of goods, the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous, in the way of dwellings, furniture, bric-a-brac, wardrobe and meals, that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help. Personal contact with the hired persons whose aid is called in to fulfil the routine of decency is commonly distasteful to the occupants of the house, but their presence is endured and paid for, in order to delegate...
Página 110 - Whatever be their climate and whatever their ancestry, we find savages living under the dominion of custom and impulse; scarcely ever striking out new lines for themselves; never forecasting the distant future, and seldom making provision even for the near future; fitful in spite of their servitude to custom, governed by the fancy of the moment; ready at times for the most arduous exertions, but incapable of keeping themselves long to steady work.
Página 134 - Usually, however, the women perform some branch of work which is wholly abandoned to them by the men ; and they refrain, whether willingly or not from engaging in the branches monopolised by their male rivals. The line between the two classes of work is often subtle enough, and it varies from place to place. Moreover, wherever the dividing line may be in any particular locality at any given time, it shifts with almost every change in the industrial process ; moving, too...
Página 106 - ... principles ; that it only applies to certain characters, and to a relatively small number of genera and families. It accounts for the prevalence of the androcentric theory by the superficial character of human knowledge of such subjects, chiefly influenced by the illusion of the near, but largely, in the case of man at least, by tradition, convention, and...
Página 112 - But women were instructed by the spiders, the nest builders, the storers of food and the workers in clay like the mud wasp and the termites. It is not meant that these creatures set up schools to teach dull women how to work, but that their quick minds were on the alert for hints coming from these sources. Even...
Página 120 - Women, as well as men, enjoyed ahe advantages of education. This evidence from the Babylonian contract-tablets, in which we find women appearing, as well as men, as plaintiffs or defendants in suits, as partners in commercial transactions, and as signing, when need arose, their names. There was none of that jealous exclusion of women in ancient Babylonia which characterizes the East of today, )iud it is probable that boys and girls pursued their studies at the same school.
Página 154 - The wives of tens of thousands of business men and well-paid employees enjoy unquestioningly, and as a matter of course, a degree of leisure such as formed the exclusive privilege of a small aristocracy in earlier centuries. The beneficent social and philanthropic activities of public spirited women and the baneful epidemic of gambling at cards which has run riot for several years and shows no tendency to diminish, are twin offspring of this unearned leisure. As employers of labor in the home, women...
Página 129 - the condition of the house workers in most country districts is lamentable, and in towns it is not much better. It would, indeed, be difficult to exaggerate the misery which has for years been the lot of this class of workers. There, as in Silesia, a hand-weaver is glad to earn 5s. or 6s. for work which occupies nine days of from sixteen to eighteen hours (less than a halfpenny per hour), while his wife toils six hours a day for 'three weeks to complete a web which will bring her an equal sum, the...