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 We discussed this in class a bit but I found it interesting in one of the letters it was mentioned how workers were once able to come and go as they please but in may of 1842 regulations started to be enforced and made sure that workers had fixed hours and labor to get paid because being able to have flexible hours did not work for private workshops. **The reason it didn’t work was because many workshops relied on work being done in an order and relies on all employees doing their part.** We discussed this in class a bit but I found it interesting in one of the letters it was mentioned how workers were once able to come and go as they please but in may of 1842 regulations started to be enforced and made sure that workers had fixed hours and labor to get paid because being able to have flexible hours did not work for private workshops. **The reason it didn’t work was because many workshops relied on work being done in an order and relies on all employees doing their part.**
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 +Despite the dangerous working conditions for children, Factory life doesn't seem that bad from what I have read. There are some things that would need to change if this form of industry were to be brought back. But ultimately I feel that this would actually be a preferable outcome to the actual job market today. Housing could be provided, a company store that held all the essentials for living, and if you need actual money you can exchange company coupons for actual money that you have earned. 
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 Like many before me have mentioned, the parallels between the text that Douglass had published in 1835 and what is currently taking place in our country is uncanny. Douglass gives a well written explanation for the phenomenon that occurs when it comes to racial tension and the ideology of white supremacy. When racial tension is discussed in the essay, it reflects how easily many people dehumanized African Americans to better prop themselves up in society. **The pervasiveness of white supremacy eventually leads to a climax, and the fight becomes the physical manifestation of this ideology. Those in power, even if not holding much of it themselves will occasionally view practices of equality or equity as a threat to their own place in society.** - Danielle Howard Like many before me have mentioned, the parallels between the text that Douglass had published in 1835 and what is currently taking place in our country is uncanny. Douglass gives a well written explanation for the phenomenon that occurs when it comes to racial tension and the ideology of white supremacy. When racial tension is discussed in the essay, it reflects how easily many people dehumanized African Americans to better prop themselves up in society. **The pervasiveness of white supremacy eventually leads to a climax, and the fight becomes the physical manifestation of this ideology. Those in power, even if not holding much of it themselves will occasionally view practices of equality or equity as a threat to their own place in society.** - Danielle Howard
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 +The recounted story that Frederick Douglas tells about his experience as a shipbuilder in Baltimore really gives an in depth look at the day-to-day experience of how workers were treated on a job site at the time. He explains in the passage that up until a certain point, he was treated pretty fairly on the ship with the other shipbuilders who were either white men or men of color. However, after 8 months, a couple of the white men began to feel threatened that the men of color might start taking more of the spots on the ship and they would become unemployed. Therefore, they felt the need to threaten some of the men of color by calling them derogatory names and to throw bricks at their face. When Douglas was attacked, he goes to tell his master about the experience and at first his master is furious. Although, once his master arrives to the job site, none of the white men spoke up about who started the violet attack against Douglas. Therefore, Douglas could not get justice for their wrongdoing. Luckily, his master decided to take him away from this job site and transition to another place. In addition, he increased his allowance of pay. 
 +This passage reveals how much race had a huge influence on the industrial movement. So much so that, that workers could be degraded by their co-workers and if you were minority within that department, 9/10, they would not get proper justice. It was also quite heart breaking how much power masters had over their workers. Douglas concludes that his master could easily control his workers to give him their daily earnings. He says that his master.  . .  “had the power to compel me to give it up. The lightgrim-visaged pirate upon the high seas is exactly the same”. - Rachel Kosmacki 
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 I thought that this article was incredibly interesting! **I thought that it was interesting that when the paper mills became mechanized that the dangers of the job dramatically increased. Typically, when we think of mechanization we think that it would make the job safer whereas this article contradicts that for the men working in the mills. Women on the other hand did not face the same dangers because their jobs were not mechanized.** Women were limited in the work that they were allowed to do and limited in the amount of hours that they were allowed to work and yet they were expected to be extremely flexible employees. Mill owners would only hire men that specialized in a specific task whereas when hiring women no prior skill or knowledge was required. Women on the other were interchangeable and could be asked to switch between mills based on the current level of demand (p170). I thought that it was notable that despite women being viewed as lesser their jobs were not mechanized because no machine could sort paper and do tasks in the rag room as well as a they could. -Emma Baumgardner  I thought that this article was incredibly interesting! **I thought that it was interesting that when the paper mills became mechanized that the dangers of the job dramatically increased. Typically, when we think of mechanization we think that it would make the job safer whereas this article contradicts that for the men working in the mills. Women on the other hand did not face the same dangers because their jobs were not mechanized.** Women were limited in the work that they were allowed to do and limited in the amount of hours that they were allowed to work and yet they were expected to be extremely flexible employees. Mill owners would only hire men that specialized in a specific task whereas when hiring women no prior skill or knowledge was required. Women on the other were interchangeable and could be asked to switch between mills based on the current level of demand (p170). I thought that it was notable that despite women being viewed as lesser their jobs were not mechanized because no machine could sort paper and do tasks in the rag room as well as a they could. -Emma Baumgardner 
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