two weeks in department stores
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Lance Cacho Robert Jolly Jason Lu Jordan Sinclair. Two Weeks in Department Stores. Annie MacLean. “MacLean’s work was on the forefront of women’s rights movement yet she has no place within its historical progression—she is left out.” www.webster.edu/~woolflm/anniemaclean.html. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Lance CachoRobert Jolly
Jason LuJordan Sinclair
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“MacLean’s work was on the forefront of women’s rights movement yet she has no place within its historical progression—she is left out.”
www.webster.edu/~woolflm/anniemaclean.html
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First store (Toy Store) Sales Lady - $3.00 a week Dehumanization –number “424” Salary lowered to $2.05, 5% commission (boy anecdote) Verbally abused by managers and customers (sit-down
story) Sick Girl story (unsuitable restaurants) Child labor – (little girl story): Role of parents
Second store (Dolls) $4 a week, 1% commission (experienced worker) Kind managers, sitting was OK, sanitary conditions 8:00 AM – 11:00 PM Prostitution – product of low wages
Dorm conditions Rent: $2.50 a week Living conditions
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“So long as the consumer will patronize (to give a store one’s regular patronage) bad stores, so long will they exist”
Regular buyers not the solutionLegislation and inspectionEnlist sympathy of intelligent peopleMore is not necessarily better
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Narrative styleParticipant ObserverTranscripts of expensesChanged the namesProvides contemporary languageDirect quotations
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2 weeksBig downtown storesRushed timeAny figures done by interviews are
misleadingDoes not mention men’s wages
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“We (intelligent people) should not rest until the bad stores improve or go out of business”
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“We (intelligent people) should not rest until the bad stores improve or go out of business”
Is the consumer responsible? Going green? Global warming issues? Sweatshops?
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“We (intelligent people) should not rest until the bad stores improve or go out of business”
Is the consumer responsible? Going green? Global warming issues? Sweatshops?
Second job because of wages
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“We (intelligent people) should not rest until the bad stores improve or go out of business”
Is the consumer responsible? Going green? Global warming issues? Sweatshops?
Second job because of wagesRole of managers / role of legislators?
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“We (intelligent people) should not rest until the bad stores improve or go out of business”
Is the consumer responsible? Going green? Global warming issues? Sweatshops?
Second job because of wages Role of managers / role of legislators? Profit margins vs. human rights/social
justice?