Everyday Family Life Celebrating and Having Fun Good Times and Bad Times Working School Community Migration

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• How did the members of your family make a living?

• What training did family members have to get for their jobs?

• What were job conditions like?

• What were the responsibilities of the woman of the house?

• What jobs, if any, did women hold outside the home? Why did they work? How did the family feel about their working?

• How old were the children when they started to work? What were their jobs like? How much did they earn? Were they able to continue school? If so, how?

More Family Folklife Questions:

• Everyday Family Life
• Celebrating and Having Fun
• Good Times and Bad Times
• Working
• School
• Community
• Migration

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From Toward a Better Balance: Curriculum Guide for Multicultural Education, Susan K. Donley (Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, 1988) ©1988 Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Used by permission.