Title: APUSH Chapter 17 Learning Curve Flashcards | Quizlet
Headings: APUSH Chapter 17 Learning Curve
APUSH Chapter 17 Learning Curve
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Content: What prevented most married women from finding work in factories or as secretaries in the late 1800s and early 1900s? Day care was not available. → Married women had to find ways to tend to the children as well as make additional income. They found such opportunities by taking in laundry, by housing boarders in the family home, or by doing piecework. What new figure appeared in the workplace in the late nineteenth century? Middle manager
→ As the managerial revolution unfolded, the headquarters of major corporations began to house departments supervised by middle managers, something not seen before in American industry. Middle managers took on entirely new tasks, directing the flow of goods, labor, and information throughout the enterprise. Why did nearly one-third of African American men work in personal service occupations in the United States in 1890? Corporate and industrial employers turned them away. → By 1890, almost a third of African American men worked in personal service because corporations and industrial operations generally refused to hire black men, except for the most menial jobs.