Stephanie Coontz Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. August 31, 1944
Birthday: August 31
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.
topic: Girl, Daughter, Mother, Middle Class Family, Black Girl, Artificial Flowers, Welsh, Sweatshops
