“ In a working-class home it is the man who is the master and not, as in a middle-class home, the woman or the baby. ”
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). copy citation
Author | George Orwell |
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Source | The Road to Wigan Pier |
Topic | home women |
Date | 1937 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200391.txt |
Context
“His home is impoverished but it is still a home, and it is noticeable everywhere that the anomalous position created by unemployment – the man being out of work while the woman’s work continues as before – has not altered the relative status of the sexes. In a working-class home it is the man who is the master and not, as in a middle-class home, the woman or the baby. Practically never, for instance, in a working-class home, will you see the man doing a stroke of the housework. Unemployment has not changed this convention, which on the face of it seems a little unfair.”
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