Workers

Concentration of Wealth – 1% population = 25% of the wealth

Working Class Americans - + 50% of the labor base

· Accrued Solid benefits but paid low wages and had low-level jobs

· Unemployed Workers – suffered more

Family Economy

· Everyone had to work

· Children - 1880

o 20%

o 10 – 14 years old

Women – Married and Single

· 25% - factory jobs

· 40% - maids, cooks, laundress, nurses

· Prostitution

Married Women – Unpaid work

· Piecework – mending, etc.

· Borders – rented bedroom, etc.

Black women in the South – domestics or laundresses