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In the 1800's there were several jobs for the poor. Some of these jobs were doing laundry, sweeping taverns, and messenger work. The poor were often housekeepers for others of wealth in the 1800's. School teachers were in short supply, too.
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∙ 14y agoA Governess. The governess was untrained and taught the 3Rs (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic) with some History and a foreign language. Being a governess was one of the few 'jobs' to which a middle-class girl could aspire. A governess, however, would com-mand a very meagre salary: anything above £30 a year would have been respectable and even then this was about half the amount which could be earned in a cotton mill.
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∙ 13y agoWomen often were teachers, nurses, servants, weavers, factory workers, seamstresses or worked on the land.
Slowly but surely they started studying at universities and the amount of female doctors, scientists etc increased. There were even some female explorers.
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∙ 16y agothe women can work as a school house teacher.
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∙ 14y agoThere were many jobs in the 1840's for men. Postal service, secretary, farmer, politician, government, small business owner, banker, baker are a few.
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∙ 14y agothey ate chicken
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∙ 14y agoreally its was only house work and sewing
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Did french women have jobs in the late 1800s?
yes french woman had jobs in the late 1800s .they worked by cleaning and cooking
Did women have jobs in the 1800s?
Some women had jobs or worked for themselves in the 1800s. Most middle class and upper class women were what we now call home makers or house wives. Remember that most people lived on farms in those days. Farm women are farmers as much as the men, although they performed different functions on the farm.
What was the women of the 1800s job?
these upper class women of the 1800's didn't really have jobs the just watched the miserable maids do all their work for them
What jobs did women have in the 1800s?
Women often were teachers, nurses, servants, weavers, factory workers, seamstresses or worked on the land. Slowly but surely they started studying at universities and the amount of female doctors, scientists etc increased. There were even some female explorers.
Increasing number of them took jobs in mills factories offices and stores during the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Women
In the mid-1800s the majority of women who held jobs as?
In the domestic services, clothing mfg., farming,teaching... Nurse, waitress
In the mid-1800s the majority of women who held jobs worked as?
In the domestic services, clothing mfg., farming,teaching... Nurse, waitress
What jobs did apprentices learn in 1800s?
they had market jobs ,clothes
What kinds of jobs did the north have during the 1800s?
Tthe women were music teachers, cooks, cleaning the house and sewing. The men were farming and mining.
What were woman not allowed to do in the early and mid-1800?
Women could not vote in the 1800s
Jobs in the west 1800s?
Farming , Building , & Trapping
How did the typewriter change who worked in offices?
It created jobs for women
