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    yet in industry they share a common bond. Female Mill Workers in England and Japan: How Similar Were Their Experiences? The textile industry in both Japan and England created many unusual tools such as England’s spinning jenny which made several spindles turn at once‚ and increasing the amount of thread produced. England created the water frame which could spin thread in great quantities. The similarities between the English and Japanese mill workers were astounding; they both consisted of many more

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    Between Female Japanese and English Mill Workers Despite the fact that Japan and England had many similarities with female mill workers‚ they still had a few differences. They basically had young children and women working in big dangerous factories making thread or in mines. So how were their experiences different? Female Japanese workers had to work more‚ they got paid less‚ and they accepted the role that their society gave them. Compared to English women mill workersJapanese women worked

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    | English Versus Japanese Female Mill Workers: Connected Through History | | | Evie PyleWorld History16 November 2012Period 2 | “My idea of feminism is self-determination‚ and it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself and do whatever she needs to.” ~Ani DiFranco | | Throughout the innovation of the factory‚ the most important characteristic was efficiency; producing as much as possible‚ as fast as possible. Because of the need for employees in the factories

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    Female Mill Workers…How Similar Were Their Experiences? With the dawn of industrialization Production’s most valuable resource was not raw materials‚ but time. The steam engine allowed vast amounts of goods to be created cheaply‚ and so it was ultimately decided by the workers how much was produced; rather than their work being limited by their materials it was limited by their speed. And so‚ efficiency‚ that is producing as much as possible as fast as possible‚ became the factory owner’s first

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    January 15‚ 2014 “Compare political‚ economic‚ and social effects of the Industrial Revolution on Britain and Japanese society between 1850 – 1914” An Industrial Revolution is when production advances to machines instead of by hands. Industrial Revolution‚ which started in the early 19th century in Britain‚ spread throughout the world and reached Japan around 1868. However‚ industrialization of each nation was different because of geographical location and cultural influence and thus resulted

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    foreigners!” Even a number of scrawny children assumed a part in the riot‚ viciously waving signs proclaiming‚ “We want to go to school!” Threateningly‚ the mob surrounded the affluent home of a local cotton mill owner‚ a man who dared to hire Irish immigrants as a replacement for the mill workers who were on strike. Torrents of authorities came rushing in‚ pointing guns and arresting violent participants. Rapidly‚ the crowd diffused‚ leaving only a few mumbling men with the weight of the world on

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    example of which is the interrelatedness between Japanese and Chinese food. However‚ no matter how you look at it‚ there is a plethora of differences between the two. Japanese food is usually light to the stomach. They are generally considered to be healthier than Chinese foods. It is because the latter makes use of too much grease in their food preparations along with the standard inclusion of carbohydrate foods rice and noodles. Nevertheless‚ Japanese food also includes some rice meals but perhaps

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    When people think about the Industrial revolution‚ they think about big steel‚ machines‚ and railroads. What’s missing are the exhausted‚ overworked laborers that operated the machinery that made things run. A prime example is the female textile mill workers from England and Japan. In the textile industry‚ women and young girls were the main employees. The main reason for this is that nimble fingers were needed to tend the spinning and weaving machines. Originally spinning and weaving were done at

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    Dairy of a cotton worker 9th January 1812 Dear diary‚ A few days ago my father was employed as a cotton weaver at the largest factory in Manchester. He was only taken in unless me‚ his nine year old son would also join the business. So today was my first day at the factory and I was only there for three hours as I was a new employee. As I walked through the entrance you could hear the loud clatters of metal and the constant banging of wood. The smell was foul and you could see a stream outside

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    Annie Sullivan and Kate Keller are‚ surprisingly‚ alike and different in many ways. Both characters are so different‚ yet so similar‚ you can tell that the author did a great job when writing “The Miracle Worker”. As you are reading‚ you don’t even notice anything‚ you think of them separately. But when you think about it‚ the whole time you were comparing and contrasting them‚ especially since Kate doesn’t seem like a big character. You can tell Annie is‚ but Kate seems like she is more in the background

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