HIST The Contemporary Global Experience|History
SPRING 2018
Homework paper
Instruction: For this first homework assignment you are to read the first two documents in Chapter One; Discipline in the New Factories and Escaping the Doll’s House. For each document you are to fully answer (response for each question should be between 2-5 paragraphs) the following questions…
1. Based upon the document entitled, Discipline in the Factories, how would you define or characterize life and working conditions of those in the cottage industry versus those who worked in the factories during the early years of the Industrial Revolution?
2. Which, if any, of the regulations listed in the document entitled, Discipline in the Factories, do you believe would be acceptable to employers and employees in today’s labor market and why?
3. Based upon the document entitled, Escaping the Doll’s House, Why is Nora dissatisfied with her life in the “doll’s house”? What is her husband’s response? Based upon your personal experiential background, have the ideologies concerning gender or the role of women versus the role of men changed in the 21st century here in America or abroad?
***Your assignment is to be typed (double-spaced, 12pt-font), and turned into me (hard copy) . Please adhere to the following format below when completing this assignment.
Name (First and Last)
Date
The Contemporary Global Experience
Homework Assignment: Duiker
Type the question here.
1. Based upon the document entitled, Discipline in the Factories, how would you define or characterize life and working conditions of those in the cottage industry versus those who worked in the factories during the early years of the Industrial Revolution?
Type your response here.
CITE YOUR SOURCE USING MLA FORMAT
FOR EXAMPLE…
“Colonialism camouflaged its economic objectives under the cloak of a ‘civilizing mission,’ which in Africa was aimed at illuminating the so-called Dark Continent with Europe’s brilliant civilization” (Duiker, 305).
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