the typical working class family (4-6 people) earned on average $800 per year, and $15 per week.
to earn $700 or $800 per year, the family either had to put the mother and children as well as the father to work, take in a boarder, or both.
Working class families spent about 2.4% of their budget on leisure.
Street Amusements:
The streets outside the tenements were the gathering place for social interaction between the middle class.
Cheap entertainment: Organ Grinders, Buskers (street performers), sidewalk acrobats, baked-potato venders, hot-corn stands, and soda dispensers.
The tenement itself served as a place of meet and greet for family parties and holiday get togethers.
Picture:
Organ Grinder on New York streets, with children watching.
form of cheap entertainment
often a man with a monkey as gimmick.
Married Working Men’s Leisure:
Skilled workers spent more time with their family, unskilled workers spent less time with family.
On sundays men would typically go fishing, go out for a shave and a stop at the saloon for drinks and a meal.
Working men spent roughly 10% of their weekly income on personal expenses, such as beer and liquor, tabacco, occasionaly a theater ticket.
Places to meet were the pool hall for a game of billiards, bowling alleys, shooting galleries. They formed their own baseball teams through workingmen’s clubs, and hung out in cigar stores and barber shops.
Picture:
The barber shop was a common place to find the husband relaxing and hanging out.
Most working men spent a lot of leisure spending on themselves.
Going out for a shave.
Men would often go to the saloon for a drink
maybe a game of billiards is in store for them
have some lunch with their pals.
A boy fetching beer for his father.
They would put the beer in the bucket and bring it home to the father.
Now a days this would be frowned upon, and is illegal.
Most working men belonged to some form of fraternal society.
Mutual benefit society, or lodge.
provided many things with the monthly fee of one dollar.
The Working Girl:
Young single women dominated the female labor force.
4/5 Of the wage-earning women in new york city were single.
ages 16-20
Sweatshop Girls(picture)
For the time domestic service was the most common.
small manufacturing firms called sweatshops
In the garment industry mostly
Macy’s building & Harold Square, 1909(picture)
there were new jobs available in large factories, in department stores, in offices.
THE WORKING GIRL PICTURES:
Other jobs could be found at drug stores
The difference between my wordle, that i have created recently and the old one is; there are more words in the new one, and it has more detail, instead of just a vague overview. We have learned many new words, and a lot more about the Industrial Revolution and how it affects the world around us. The advancement in technology, woman working, leisure time, saloons. All this new stuff that we learned and had some prior knowledge of before, although may have slipped our minds.
Reflection:
In the time of the industrial revolution, so much changed. People were making money and having a great time. Those who succumbed to the invisible hand were able to make the money they deserved. Whether this be a lot or a little. The time spent on working was about 3/4’s of the time they had everyday. The rest of the time was spent, depending on whom was spending it, as a time of leisure. The wealthier men would go off to the saloon, get a drink, some dinner maybe. Most men were a part of a group, or some type of Fraternal society. The single women, working, were often between the ages of 16-20. They often spent time working at cloth factories, and dominated the female work force.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION!
Leisure:
The Working Class Budget:
Street Amusements:
- The streets outside the tenements were the gathering place for social interaction between the middle class.
- Cheap entertainment: Organ Grinders, Buskers (street performers), sidewalk acrobats, baked-potato venders, hot-corn stands, and soda dispensers.
- The tenement itself served as a place of meet and greet for family parties and holiday get togethers.
Picture:Married Working Men’s Leisure:
Picture:
The Working Girl:
- Young single women dominated the female labor force.
- 4/5 Of the wage-earning women in new york city were single.
- ages 16-20
Sweatshop Girls(picture)- For the time domestic service was the most common.
- small manufacturing firms called sweatshops
- In the garment industry mostly
Macy’s building & Harold Square, 1909(picture)THE WORKING GIRL PICTURES:
The difference between my wordle, that i have created recently and the old one is; there are more words in the new one, and it has more detail, instead of just a vague overview. We have learned many new words, and a lot more about the Industrial Revolution and how it affects the world around us. The advancement in technology, woman working, leisure time, saloons. All this new stuff that we learned and had some prior knowledge of before, although may have slipped our minds.
Reflection:
In the time of the industrial revolution, so much changed. People were making money and having a great time. Those who succumbed to the invisible hand were able to make the money they deserved. Whether this be a lot or a little. The time spent on working was about 3/4’s of the time they had everyday. The rest of the time was spent, depending on whom was spending it, as a time of leisure. The wealthier men would go off to the saloon, get a drink, some dinner maybe. Most men were a part of a group, or some type of Fraternal society. The single women, working, were often between the ages of 16-20. They often spent time working at cloth factories, and dominated the female work force.