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Title: Strikes, Bogeys, Spares, And Misses: Pin-Boy and Caddy Strikes in the 1930S.
Author : Labour/Le Travail
Release Date : January 22, 1999
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 346 KB

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YOUTH HAVE ALWAYS PLAYED an important role in the economy and labour force, contributing to the collective `household wage'. This has been especially so in what is now ubiquitously described as the service economy. Historically the gender divisions of labour meant that employment opportunities outside the home were largely restricted to males while young "girls" assisted in family chores inside the home. Boys are thought to have undertaken little household work in the traditional female sphere, although research in this area is quite rudimentary and oral recollections might well be minted by gendered memories filtered through decades of understanding of what constitutes "proper" male tasks.(1) During the interwar period adolescents began spending more leisure time away from their parents and enjoyed greater social freedom than their predecessors. In the late 19th and early 20th century the problems of modern youth were initially most commonly associated with working-class boys.(2) Activities ranged from roaming the streets to participation in organized entertainment or alternatively engaging in new commercial amusements. Urban life and the new leisure or mass culture activities of golf and bowling also increased the opportunities for young boys to earn money. Through working outside the home "boys" were on their way to becoming "breadwinners."