An Afterthought…

After our discussion on Monday I was thinking about what we discussed about race relations in Baltimore and Stephen’s question about if the story could be written about a different time and place and it made me think about how gender relations also contributed to the limited amount of resistance the working poor showed to their condition (which seemed to be a consistent theme of our discussion in class). While the book discusses many situations and realities in which gender plays an important role (for example how some of the gentry was interested in the plight of seamstresses) it doesn’t go into much the relationships between male and female laborers in regards to the workplace (as opposed to the home where we learnt it was cheaper to get a wife than a housekeeper). While I don’t think further discussion of this would build more on the book’s thesis, I think it would further the discussion we were having in class about the limited amounts of resistance that occurred so I thought I’d throw it out there. Hope all is well.

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