What about women?

In class we argued the negative aspect of women. But what about the great opportunities granted to them? What about Blackwell's first steps (even though a man's mistake) led to women doctors? What about the suffrage movement? Equal Rights?

We will argue the lower pay for women later. I won't lie, the statistics used to "prove" their points of exploitation in today's market place are skewed. I will explain later.

The Second Industrial Revolution

As your teacher, I do want to make sure you guys understand where are discussion is going. I have offered you a new perspective--the Marxist, negative view.

With that said, make sure you know there are major problems with this view as well. Instead of hopping on the negative bandwagon against our traditional view, let's slap some negativism on the idea presented in class.


Let me start--without the Second Industrial Revolution, Pasteur, Jenner, Lister, and other medical scientists would never had expanded our culture.

The Second Industrial Revolution created the infrastructure for our new internet age, an age of easy access information. New modes of discussion with people from other cultures.

The Second Industrial Revolution allowed for the increase social mobility, freeing us from any caste system, especially the one Marx indirectly proposed.

Others? Criticism for my ideas?

The New Industrial Social Class System

During the First Industrial Revolution, the specialization of labor had not reached the point to allow for complete social mobility. Therefore, I called it a new "Industrial Caste System."

Did the Second Industrial Revolution provide more social mobility to end this Industrial Caste system? If so, for whom? In not, what problems existed?

Emigration and Immigration of the Late 19th Century

In our class discussion, we discussed the concept of the emigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, as well as Ireland. This emigration illustrated a new problem--the "have-nots" in the Modern World--without industries, life is empty. Plus, we saw the immigration patterns in England, Germany and the US illustrated the modern problem of the "haves"--its all mine and don't even think about sharing it.

With this said in a different manner, evaluate the following:

1. Was tradition life of agriculture really that bad?
2. How was the treatment of the immigrants unfair, racist, and completely wrong?
3. How was the treatment of the immigrants justified in the eyes of those who felt threaten?
   

Second Industrial Revolution

Now, let's restart this post--How was the Second Industrial Revolution EVIL to the CORE?

Prostitution--Good? Bad? or Just Ugly?

You guys focused so much on the moral issue of prostitution, I thought I should create a specific post.

Prostitution--You are all misogynic--was it only the woman's fault? The moral issue is not one way, but both. The Disease Act in itself was immoral because it focused only on women--is this not just putting "Eve" at fault for the fall? (Non-Religious people--this means that so many pastors focus on Eve's sin that caused the fall of man, but it was under Adam's leadership and his watch that it happened.) Let's get real before we go off on prostitutes.

Next thought--you are right to say prostitutes have value. Remember I stated that realism was not reality but a reaction. Naturalism is the true realism. Emile Zola gives value to prostitutes by going into their lives. The question was not how could a woman become a prostitute, it became "what made a woman become a prostitute." Is prostitution bad? Duh! But, isn't the exploitation of women in the workforce the evil cause of it?

Just a thought

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Evaluate the Second Industrial Revolution

How was the Second IR better or worse than the first?

The Second Industrial Revolution

What defined the Second Industrial Revolution?