Division of Labor and the Industrial Revolution
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks about the division of labor by gender before and during the Industrial Revolution. "Women's labor is...cheap labor because it's assumed that women do not have to support families and therefore th...
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History of Professional Women
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris traces the history of professional women in the United States, from the colonial period to modern times.
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Peak Performance
The importance of orientation and training of new salespersons, and the responsibility of the sales manager to keep sales force motivated are explained.
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Pre-Civil War Working Conditions
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks about working conditions during the pre-Civil War years. "A twelve-hour working day in the pre
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Division of Labor in Colonial America
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks about patterns of work during colonial times. Professor Harris notes that both men and women
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Family History: Modern Family Juggles Responsibilities
Parents in a modern day blended family juggle their parenting responsibilities with professional obligations.
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Transcript: -brain stimulation. [narrator:] john and robin vandenburgh are a hard-working successful couple, living in the growing community of riverside, california. their jobs
Changing Families: Idealized Perceptions of Family
Idealized perceptions of family are often at odds with reality. For example, the 1950's was a decade many point to nostalgically as the golden age of family. Yet fathers were frequently so consumed with their jobs during that time that they had li...
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Transcript: children, and to pick up And move wherever the company told the husband he was next To work, so that husbands And fathers really were fairly invisible in
Long Hours and Personal Sacrifice
This clip talks about the long hours and personal sacrifice that are often part of running a small business. It's not uncommon for the business owner to miss important family events because the demands of the business are so great.
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Working Women in Colonial America
labor generally worked alongside men doing the same kind of agricultural work that would be done on the Northern farm.
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Women at Work
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris explains that, in the early twentieth century, two-thirds of native-born White women worked
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