A Research Of Female Workers In Reeling Profession In Chiangnan Area

During 100 years after the Opium War, Under the western impact, the capitalism industry of China obtained the slow development, the factory begin to use machine. Traditional handicraft industry quite developed in the Chiangnan area, because It absorbs the western business rapidly to compare other areas. Handicraft industry transited early to the mechanized big production.The Chiangnan area city mostly stems from along the river, the convenience water transportation and the road traffic, the warm moist climate have the advantageous condition regarding the silk industry development, the mechanized silk reeling industry develop. The factory needs to solve the labor force question, China's surplus population constituted main origin. But, reeling profession request division of labor careful, the operation is nimble, the enterprise often stresses on the female. On the one hand, they under the livelihood, are willing to be engaged in the dirty tired work, moreover the feminine finger is nimble, has the superiority in the smart work compared to the male;On the other hand, the capitalist in pays in female worker's wages often to be lower than the male worker. Therefore, the capitalist favors in uses the female worker.In the capitalism pattern factory, female worker's conditions is not optimistic, In order to improve the living condition and the wages treatment, the female workers are waging the struggle unceasingly. Works to in factory, the female workers more or less receive the influence of the outside, has been condside own status and the destiny, they realized gradually It is may change. Thereupon, the economical request first becomes their goal strike, but the opportunity of success are very few. Until steps onto the political struggle path which unifies with the worker and peasant movement, female worker's ideology obtains the enhancement, the struggle way also has the transformation, and dens in a noticeable revolutionary strength.The female workers move towards the modern from the traditional society, It changes the traditional feminine status, they enter the factory work, had the independent economic capacity, obtains the enhancement in the family status, comes form in the traditional Confucianism and the family influence restraint. At the same time, they also win social respect and approval for the female.