Short Answer Questions: Using the excerpt above, answer (a), (b), and (c)

a) Describe the conditions in America around 1840 that encouraged young women to seek employment outside of

their home.

b) List and explain three reasons Orestes Brownson used to oppose the employment of women as factory

"operatives."

c) Identify an argument from the "Lowell Offering" and explain how it countered the position of Orestes Brownson.

Answer :

Orestes Brownson was an intellectual writer from New England. He wrote many books on human labor and mainly focused on the social life and conditions of the American women.

Explanation:

a). Women in America could work in factories so that they can receive better wages or money which enables them to live a new dignified life and ideal life. They are able to receive good clothes, good houses and decent environment and conditions that encouraged them to work outside their homes. They were free form the domestic work and were independent.

b). The women got very little from the treatment and they die a tragic death. They die from harsh conditions and nobody marries them. To Orestes Brownson, this ruins or destroys the notion of virtuous girl.

c). It was very nice for the women of America and they got paid better wages. The women are also treated well and paid quite a bit. This contributed to the greater good to of the society and we should be happy about this.

the difference is that white collar worker performs skills like worker as a scientist or well blue collars do physical work and they do services like being a cook.