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F. How Employment Became the Norm in different sectors
Employment from Industrial Age
Later, Roman employment was adopted in every field. When the industrial revolution started in Europe after the invention of the steam engines, factories were created and employees were hired to work in these factories. Life was harsh, and like the Roman times when the mining employees would have to work their bodies off working in the mines for 16 hours, the same thing was adopted by the capitalists and the industrialists.
Rise of Socialism and Equality
On the other hand bureaucrats and intellectual employees had a much easier life with respect to physical hardship. Employees encouraged their children to get an education, which became mainstream since the 1820 onset of the Victorian age. In the later years, communism and socialism would rise due to labor disparity between field employees and intellectual employees. 8-hours of work day was established, with one day holiday.
Rise of Female Professionals
Till now the history of livelihood was strongly by the men. This is because life was hard, and anything productive needed physical labor and hardship. However, this was about to change slowly.
With the rise of machines, fewer and fewer physical jobs were needed, and more opportunities opened up in mental work. This is the same time when girls’ education became mainstream. Across Europe and America, girls became more and more successful in intellectual pursuits such as literature, poetry, and painting. However, they were still away from productivity.
Jane Taylor, the mother of Twinkle twinkle little star, Rosa Bonheur, the best horse painter of all time, and the first historical figure to live in a lesbian relationship, and a whole generation of successful female creators arose including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and so on.
Females were making their marks, but mostly as solopreneurs, and some in creator economy.
Rise of Feminism
The first Women’s Right Convention was held in 1848 in New York for the equal rights of women. In the initial period, women mostly protested against the liquors. As physical hardship broke the body of the workers in the fields, factories, and mines, they needed relaxation and pain relief at night. Liquor served as the easy and cheap solution for the same.
However, liquor came with several ill effects. Household financials were disturbed due to spending on liquor. There was domestic violence which essentially made women the majority sufferer. The liquor culture also became more organized over a period of time with prostitution, gambling, and other activities. It is interesting to note that during the Roman times, such lavishness was available only to the wealthy people, and Pompei was the hub of “enjoyment”.
However industrial age and money brought such entertainment to the doorsteps of rather poor workers. They would literally destroy their salaries in liquor, later drugs, prostitution, and gambling.
Early feminist movements demanded opportunities for women in the workplace, which even till the early 19th century was not available to them.
Rise of Female Employees after the second world war
Millions of men died during the second world war. Several men got terminally injured. Several men lost their limbs. Household finances were shattered. It was then that the industrialists and the capitalists heavily invested in machines and science to automate physical labor and opened the doors of corporations and institutions for women employees.
Slowly over the decades, lower and middle-income blue-colored jobs started shifting from men to women because they were better in doing repetitive jobs, human interaction, and care, and were less demanding, more agreeable, and more disciplined than men.
Employment becoming mainstream in all the fields
Post world war II, employment became mainstream in every aspect of productivity.
- Holywood stars are all employed by the studios.
- Till 1965, most Bollywood workforce used to be employed by the studios.
- Sports clubs employ players.
- Companies employ workers.
- Army is employed across the globe.
- Teachers are employed in the schools.
- Scientists are employed in research organizations.
After the global push for education(because you needed more and more mental work for the future) after Ford created the first automated integrated assembly line in 1908, employment became so mainstream, that everyone aspired to study and get employed. Even those who worked in the factories and physical labor jobs got faster promotion to managerial roles if they were educated.
Education, Employment, and Marriages
Education and employment became synonymous and children were raised by their parents to be employed to have a settled and secure life.
People in business, and those who did not have any permanent employment found it hard to find a life partner for them. As the economy raised, several countries like South Korea discouraged their then population to reproduce, which has brought the country into a severe population crisis today with the child per woman coming down to 0.78 from the critical factor of 2.0 to maintain a country’s demographic dividend.
During the same time, men preferred employed brides, and therefore women too pushed hard to get employed.