Factory Act

January 06, 2010Labour women drafted a factory act which outlawed the two shift system and night work, limited women's working week to forty-eight hours, provided them with protection against dangerous substances like lead in the workplace, mandated toilet facilities and rest periods, proper ventilation, and temperature control. The party promised to implement this reform as soon as they were in a position to do so, but opposition to the proposals came from another quarter. Middle-class "equality" feminists organized as The Open Door Council subjected Labour women's factory act to loud and scathing criticism. They challenged Labour's Chief Woman Officer, Marion Phillips, to a public debate on the BBC and argued against protective legislation in some of the same terms Labour women themselves had used just after the war. Labour women translated this very public dispute over what was good policy for working women into the language of class. Not for the first time, but with greater vehemence than before, socialist women criticized middle-class, leisured women for making pronouncements on subjects outside their experience. What did these privileged women know about factory labor -- the heat, dust, noise, accidents, and abuse? By the end of the decade, the criticism of middle-class women had turned into a general critique of feminism. At the National Labour Women's Conference in 1928, Marie James pointed out that feminism was a middle-class philosophy with no relevance to working women: "The feminist problem was how to rescue women from their degrading dependence on a good man's love…It was not concerned with the more degrading dependence of women on employers who exploited their labor in the interests of large profits."

Socialists against Feminists: The Issue of Protective Legislation

January 06, 2010Protective legislation for women workers was Labour women's third major campaign to solve the woman question in the 1920s. Here they were on safer ground than with either birth control or family allowances. Since it was in no way a threat to trade union authority, Labour men were prepared to endorse protective legislation as a legitimate women's concern and leave it to the women's side of the movement to pursue. Immediately after the war in which women had taken on jobs previously seen as well beyond their capacity, Labour women leaders questioned the need for special legislation to protect women workers. They argued that sex-based regulations limited women's job opportunities while perpetuating low wages and gender-segregation in the workforce. By the late 1920s, they had changed their minds. Working women's pay and conditions had markedly deteriorated. Employers' efforts to boost profits had gone beyond wage reductions to include layoffs, assembly-line speed-up and longer working hours. A favorite device was the two shift system. Women workers had to leave home as early as four in the morning for the first shift. After a few useless spare hours in the middle of the day, they went back for the second shift and often did not get home until ten at night. The 1918 Washington Convention restricted shift work for women but the British government disregarded the international ruling and allowed shift work in "essential trades," a sufficiently loose term to encourage widespread abuse. Working women had little power to resist these pressures. Since 1919, their trade union membership had declined by a third and efforts to raise the numbers failed to stop the slide. Labour women leaders recognized that protective legislation was not the ideal way of solving women's long-term problems in the labor force but they argued that it was a vital first step in improving working conditions that threatened women's health as workers and future mothers.

Satin Silk painting

January 06, 2010Satin silk, as we all know, is a kind of the silk terms. We commonly create a Chinese painting tradition on habutai silk, however, the silky sheen always lost in the producing process. While satin silk has avoided the case happened on the painting on silk. It was a very pleased result we see. The pale background colors retain the beautiful satin sheen. On the others, we could still use a stencil in two positions to produce this art deco design.
We are always in the process to find the best workmanship and fabric and any other specifications in making silk paintings. Never stop doing that.

Shopping wedding dresses

January 06, 2010Buy wedding dress comes with its own language, and the more you know about which wedding dress styles flatter you, the easier shopping for your wedding dress will be. Before you even set foot in a salon, read up on some of the lingo you’ll encounter there. Familiarize yourself with the wedding gown and all of its parts:   skirt details, fabric, neckline, waistline, sleeve style, finishes, and train. Learn the basic dress silhouettes, and figure out which one will best suit your body.
Now is also the time to consider the formality of your ceremony and the features of the site. Your Hawaiian wedding dresses should also reflect the time and place of your bridal. A formal candlelit ceremony is not the time to be sporting a short sundress, nor is an afternoon garden party the place to break out the cathedral-length train and veil.
Ace a minute to close your eyes and envision yourself as a bride. What do you see? Are you wearing a full ball gown with your hair in romantic ringlets? Or are you outfitted in an ethereal, pink wedding dresses and loose hair sprinkled with flowers? Write down six adjectives that best describe how you want to look and feel on your wedding day. Some examples: sophisticated, over-the-top, classic, princess, sexy, boohoo.

How to create silk painting

January 04, 2010Silk painting, as an art deco design on silk, needs a very precious way to create it. Among those, developing the use of stencils with silk paints and Art Deco designs have proved to be an excellent way of using this technique. The stencil was cut with alternating segments of the "fan" motif. The background was painted and dried. Then the stencil was applied to the silk twice, in two different positions, using two different shades of color on the Chinese paintings. The spots were used to line up the second position.
During the whole process, please carefully deal with each step, a little flawless may result in the bad born Chinese landscape painting.

Rent wedding dresses

January 03, 2010Another money-saving option is to rent a gown, especially if you're not too sentimental and the logic of buying something to wear for just one night is lost on you. Some clothing rental shops have wedding dresses in stock or you may be able to find a store near you that rents only wedding gowns (check online under "Clothing Rental"). On the downside, you’d find at a bridal salon. And the styles may not be the most up to date.

Introduction of silk painting

January 03, 2010As a traditional culture of world, Chinese silk paintings have been more and more valuable. Its precious workmanship and vivid performance make it to be the treasure of the collector.
Today painting on silk is an extremely popular art form but it is almost as old as the discovery of silk itself. With modern dyes and paints the design possibilities are limitless. Using a medium-weight habutai silk, Pébéo Setasilk iron-fixed silk paints, clear water solvent gutta and in some paintings batik wax as the resist, people have successfully developed a technique that hides the resist lines. The finished pictures are carefully stretched and mounted on acid-free board and then framed for exhibition.
So precious and well-done work, not only can Chinese silk paintings is collected as the treasure but also can show your distingue taste.

Dresses of bridal outlet

January 03, 2010If you're on a strict budget and find that the wedding gowns in a bridal salon are out of your league, you might want to try your luck at a bridal outlet. These outlets generally stock discount wedding dresses from past seasons, or cheap wedding dresses designed by lesser-known companies whose names you may not recognize. Shopping here can save you money, but keep in mind you may have to sort through many dud cheap wedding gowns as part of the process. You might not find what you're looking for, and prices aren't always that low.

Bargain silk, wary choice

December 31, 2009Silk is considered as an expensive cost fabric. So some of the venders sometimes promote “bargain price” to attract the consumers. However I think you should avoid purchasing silk duvet cover.WHY?
In the world of silk bedding you truly do get what you pay for. If you spend $150 dollars (or the equivalent) on a bargain set of silk sheets for your king size bed, you will be getting a bargain set of bed linens that is made from a lower quality silk and that likely also contains other non silk fibers in the weave. The bargain sheets will not hold up well over time and will be destined for the scrap heap in a short amount of time. It reminds me of a saying my Mom had which went like this, "If it looks like a bargain, feels like a bargain, and smells like a bargain, be very wary because it is probably no bargain at all."
There are typically only a few occasions where high quality silk blankets Chinese will be reduced in price to the point of a being a real bargain. If a color or style is being discontinued manufacturers will discount the silk linen. There may also be periodic sales or special pricing if silk sheets, a silk comforter, and a silk duvet cover are all purchased at the same time.
Do not just fell in love with the price and forget the quality, buying inferior silk pillowcase indicates you will spend more a year later.

Where to shop wedding dresses

December 31, 2009To assist you on the quest for your unique wedding dress，Here's what to know before you go.
We’ve got answers to your most pressing questions. Where should you go?
The most popular place to shop is the bridal salon, known for its personal service, tranquil setting, and wide selection of wedding gowns from a variety of designers. You'll find boutique salons in upscale urban shopping districts, suburban downtown areas, strip malls, full-scale malls, and even inside some of the larger department stores. Check online under " Bridal Shops" or "Wedding dresses" to see what's available in your area. Word-of-mouth recommendations are also very helpful. Find out which shops have given excellent service to past brides you may know, and then call to make appointments. Try to limit your shopping to three or four salons, and bring along a small notebook to jot down the details on the wedding dress you like.
Research which salons are most appropriate for your budget. While the average salon carries lines in the under-$1000 category, there are others in which the wedding dresses start at $3000. Save yourself -- and the salons -- time by asking before you make an appointment.
Besides the day-to-day business of selling cheap wedding dresses, salons also hold special wedding-related events like trunk shows and sales wedding dress. At a trunk show, a specific designer (or representative of a bridal manufacturer) brings his or her latest wedding dress line for brides-to-be to try on during a special in-store gathering. The advantage? You get to see every wedding dress in the line, not just the styles selected by the store. And you may even get the small thrill of chatting with the designer in person -- or better yet, having he or she advises you on your look.
At a sample sale, the discount wedding dresses used in the salon for brides to try on are put up for sale. Some stores have sample wedding dresses in an array of sizes, though the typical sample sizes are 6, 8, and 10. Keep in mind that discount wedding dresses run small; samples are likely to fit you if your regular dress size is a 2, 4 or 6. The dresses may not be super clean, but since they're sharply discounted, you can put some of your savings toward the cleaning bill.

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How to measure the silk

December 30, 2009As we go shopping for silk sheets, we always hear such a unit-momme. Maybe you are getting confused with it, and what is that?
Momme weight is a way of measuring things developed by the Japanese. Momme weight is a standard way of measuring the weight of natural silk as well as a common way to measure pearls. Momme is pronounced much like the word "mummy."
For silk sheet sets a momme weight of 12-19 is considered good quality with silk sheets in the range of 16-19 being very high quality. Anything lower than 12 will result in silk sheets that are not as durable as they should be which means they will be more prone with damage and tearing.
To standard for measuring momme weight is by using a piece of fabric that is 100 yards long and 45 inches wide. If that piece of fabric weighs 19 pounds then the momme weight of that silk is 19.
The higher the momme weight the heavier the silk fabric which means a greater amount of silk was used in the weaving process.

Start shopping wedding dresses

December 30, 2009You’ve got the ring on your finger, now you're ready to go wedding gown shopping. To assist you on the quest for your dream wedding dress，Here's what to know before you go.
If you’re like many brides, you've been envisioning what you'd wear to your wedding since before you bought your first bra. Then again, maybe you've never thought about it at all. Either way, a lot of pressure can accompany wedding dress shopping. After all, the bridal gown you put on for your walk down the aisle will be the true centerpiece of the day. This one article of clothing is probably going to be the most expensive and talked about thing you'll ever wear.
When should you start?
Two words: shop early. Nine to 12 months before your wedding is ideal since you'll need about six months to spare for fittings. Why? Unless you buy a ready-to-wear wedding dress or a sample wedding gown, wedding dresses are custom-made. And once your wedding dress arrives, it's going to have to be altered -- usually several times -- until it fits you perfectly. That said, many companies can turn a wedding dress around more quickly if need be. But if you have less than six months, start shopping right away and try to be flexible about your dress choice. Here's a tip: Avoid weekends and evenings if you can swing it. Bridal salons get insanely busy -- especially if you're marrying in a popular wedding month. If you can take time off during the week to shop, you'll get more of the salesperson's time and attention.

Female-orientated policy

December 29, 2009In the twenties, SPD women, ready for compromises, attempted to strike a balance between a class-oriented solidarity, which appeared important to them, and a female-orientated policy. Purchase for essay writer and you will obtain custom authentic essay written for you! The established female leaders of the SPD were prepared to compromise with their male colleagues to such an extent that they were in danger of losing the support of younger women both in and out of party. The fact that only a few women in the party and in politics -- and these mainly middle-aged or older -- held responsible positions led to a generation gap. But there was no overt struggle between representatives of the various generations and no collective generational grass-roots protest. Although the SPD female leaders were relatively open-minded on female sexuality and procreative function, they could not count on the support of women in bourgeois parties. Official cooperation with communist women was not possible for ideological reasons, except for some local initiatives between rank-and-file members. During the Weimar Republic, SPD women were not concerned only with party and politics in the narrow sense. They became involved in numerous activities in the social and cultural arena, which for them always meant politics in the sense of shaping society.

Workers' Welfare Organization

December 29, 2009SPD women were mainly concerned with social policy and reform, and for this purpose they developed a well-functioning welfare organization. Thus SPD women were active, above all, in arenas that corresponded to their traditional role. Their participation in the Workers' Welfare Organization was not seen by male colleagues as a stepping stone into politics, but rather as a publicly praised sidetrack, based on the traditional view of gender roles. Women did not have enough elbowroom to develop an independent female policy. If you require to edit essay, do not doubt to order on our professional essay editors! Moreover, it is striking that women were more active at the beginning of the Republic than in the following years. 64 This leads to the conclusion that in the period immediately following the end of the war, much energy was expended by the SPD in encouraging women's expectations of gender equality in the party -hopes that were soon dashed.

National Socialists

December 29, 2009In contrast to the some of the former SPD voters, female SPD activists clearly politicized their work again in the early 1930s, fearing the National Socialists in general and their anti-feminism in particular. Not until the end of the Weimar Republic did "the female segment" of the body politic expand its protests by organizing women's street demonstrations, in a bid for broader and deeper political influence in a male-dominated society. Many of these protests demanded the abolition of the antiabortion law. Do not chop to order write my essay as we provide custom essays written by professionals. The International Women's Day, whose yearly celebration was already a tradition among socialist and pacifist women, was opened in 1931 with the slogan "Against war and Nazi terror, for socialism and peace." Even in the generally apolitical Frauenwelt there were articles intended to enlighten the readers about Nazi goals. After 1933 the political life of all Social Democrats, male and female, ceased to exist. But the gender asymmetry was maintained nonetheless among the persecuted; women made up "only" 15 percent of the politically persecuted. Several of the most active female and male Social Democrats were sent to prison or concentration camp. During the Third Reich, Toni Pfülf, Minna Bollmann, and Gertrud Hanna, all well-known female Social Democrats, committed suicide. Others, such as Marie Kunert and Anna Siemsen, Mathilde Wurm, Toni Sender, and Marie Juchacz emigrated or lived abroad for a long period. A number of Social Democratic women who stayed in Germany participated in circles which attempted to maintain an informal cultural resistance against the Nazis. Finally, many former female and male SPD voters survived by coming to terms in varying degrees with the Third Reich.

Former SPD-Voter

December 29, 2009While a part of the SPD female rank and file cooperated with their communist sisters in some situations at least on the local level or pursued similar interests, every sixth former SPD-voter voted for the NSDAP between September 1930 and July 1932. Most of these, it appears, were not anchored in the social democratic milieu and presumably were accustomed to changing party loyalties. Former Social Democratic women were also among the new NSDAP voters; there is, however, no evidence that more female than male SPD voters shifted their support to the Nazis. Although not all SPD male and female voters remained loyal to their party, the SPD nevertheless lost far fewer male and female voters to the NSDAP than did the bourgeois parties. 58 According to the few gender statistics in the Reichstag election of 1930, approximately half of NSDAP voters were male, half female.

Conflicts with the Bourgeois Women's Movement

December 29, 2009Conflicts with the bourgeois women's movement were complemented by those with the Communist women's movement. Social Democratic and Communist women held many views in common, but in the Reichstag they maintained their distance and remained true to their own party line. This was also the case at the Federation of Trade Unions (ADGB) general meetings, which were always an occasion for communist and socialist women and men to meet. At the Trade Union Congress of 1922, for example, a series of demands aimed at improving women's situation was presented by four women and supported by forty-six other delegates, mostly men, who presumably were members or supporters of the Communist party. Theodor Leipart ( SPD), head of the ADGB, rejected the proposals, arguing that they were based on insubstantial arguments, and he was supported by the majority of delegates. Order for essay writing help and you will find good non-plagiarized essay written online! Later, the leader of female unionists, Gertrud Hanna, interpreted the proposals as stemming from a specific political camp. In her view important demands were intertwined with impossible ones and, as a consequence, she likewise distanced herself from all of them. Whether this was Hanna's own opinion or whether she was put under pressure by the male union leadership ( SPD), remains unknown, but, in any case, this was an example of SPD female unionists integrating themselves into the party line and by doing so helping to confirm the split between the two working-class parties. Since many of the active Communist and Social Democratic women were housewives, common experiences at the workplace were lacking. This and the separate welfare organizations minimalized the connections and increased the split between Social Democratic and Communist women. There were, however, some important exceptions. In proletarian working-class districts women from the two parties lived as neighbors sharing local lifestyles and problems. Thus, it is not an accident that at the neighborhood level leftist Social Democratic women occasionally cooperated with their communist sisters in subsistence-oriented street protests, in commissions investigating food profiteers, and in the campaign against the antiabortion law (Paragraph 218 of the criminal code) in 1931.

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Complete statements

December 28, 2009Ko-yen are usually also complete statements, likewise expressing judgments or values, but they differ in being “quotations,” guides for behavior taken from the writings of some famous author or work of the past, and thus have a decidedly written flavor in lexical choice, grammar, and style, even if they have become “proverbial” in use. Pay for for essay writing help and you will receive customized non-plagiarized essay written online! Thus, from the “Shu-erh'” article of the Lun-yü (Analects) of Confucius comes the famous quotation attributed to the Master: “If three of us are walking together, at least one must be able to be my teacher.” The famous line from the Tao te ching (Classic of the Way and Integrity), attributed to Lao Tzu (“the Old Master”)—“The longest journey begins with a single step”—is thought by some to be a quotation itself of an even older oral proverb, but in any case has gone on to become “proverbial,” not only for those Chinese who may not know its (written) source, but even (in translation) for many others around the world. Another basically written form is the ch'eng-yü. Ch'eng-yü are also fixed (usually four-character) literary expressions, employing the vocabulary and structures of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wen-yen), often taken from or containing allusions (tien-ku) to situations in classical written works. T'ou shu chi ch'i—literally “to [hesitate to] pelt a rat [for fear of] smashing the vase [near it],” meaning “to hold back from taking action against evildoers for fear of also harming others'”—is a ch'eng-yü that alludes to an ancient fable in which something thrown at a rat accidentally destroyed a valuable vase. Ch'eng-yü are included along with the other terms under the general rubric of shu-yü because many have passed into common use and are widely employed, even in contemporary vernacular (pai-hua) writing, as well as in the speech of educated people.

Proverbs and Other Familiar Expressions

December 28, 2009Another major problem in addressing the history of proverbs in Chinese literature is that of definition and differentiation. This is evident in the passage from Liu Hsieh quoted above, where the first example he cites (“fruit without flowers”) is in fact a proverbial expression (su-yü) rather than, as in his second example, a proverb proper—that is, a complete sentence expressing (directly or indirectly) an observation or judgment. If you require to edit my essay, do not hesitate to try on our professional essay editors! Although the Chinese usage, both past and present, of the various terms discussed below has never been consistent, for present-day purposes, a distinction should be drawn between yen-yü (proverbs), su-yü (proverbial expressions), ko-yen (maxims), hsieh-hou-yü (enigmatic folk similes or truncated witticisms), and the ubiquitous ch'eng-yü (fused-phrase [literary] idioms or “four-character expressions” or simply “set/fixed phrases”), all of which can be collectively referred to under the general heading of shuyü (familiar expressions).

Pithy insights

December 28, 2009Thus, on the one hand, their “vulgar” origins and phrasing seem to make them “unfit for the sophisticated salons” of literature (pu teng ta-ya chih t'ang); on the other hand, their pithy insights and formulations seem constantly to admit them through the “back door” into literary works, where they usually appear wearing such “scare quote” markers as ku-jen yün (“the ancients said”), yen yün or yen yüeh (“the proverb says”), or su-yüyün (“the proverbial expression says”). Do not wobble to get essays for sale as we furnish custom essays drafted by professionals. Just as ancient works such as Shih-ching (Classic of Poetry) and Yi-ching (Classic of Change) represent collections of much older orally transmitted values and traditions, so over the centuries have the values and utterances of the common people continued to find their way into the written works of the literate “great tradition,” while many of the concepts and phrases of that literate tradition have also been borrowed or reborrowed into the oral “little tradition” of the peasantry. Thus the incorporation of proverbs and other “familiar expressions” into Chinese literature represents merely one more step in an ongoing interchange and intertextuality between the language and values of China's literate great tradition and the age-old, orally transmitted beliefs and values of its common people.

Proverbs

December 28, 2009The Chinese are famous for their proverbs. Although it is true that proverbs and proverbial wisdom play a large part in most illiterate, orally based peasant cultures, the Chinese perhaps more than any other people are world renowned for their proverbs, and proverbs have long played and continue to play an important part in Chinese written culture up to and through the twentieth century. The topic of proverbs and proverbial expressions in Chinese literature must first be related to the basic distinctions made by the Chinese literati between the written style of language, which was considered “elegant” (ya), and the colloquial, spoken language, which was viewed as “vulgar” (su). In literature this contrast ultimately came to be reflected in the modern distinction between works written in “classical-language style” (wen-yen-wen) and those written in colloquial or “unadorned” style. Proverbs are at base an oral form, encapsulating the experiences, observations, and wisdom of ordinary people into short, pithy, colloquial statements and judgments phrased in easily memorized forms. Proverbs employ familiar images and tropes to capture the experience and values shared by successive generations, and are repeatedly quoted and appealed to for persuasion, in argumentation, and as guides for daily living. In the mouths of ordinary peasant farmers, craftspeople, and tradespeople, they are “minitexts” of a commonly shared “oral literature” that possess authority by virtue of their constant repetition and use.

Confucian tradition

December 28, 2009For the orthodox Confucian tradition, the importance of accurate use of language (related to the doctrine of cheng-ming [rectification of names]) meant that the single appropriate function of humor was admonishment of moral impropriety. Thus from a conservative Confucian standpoint, the inverted or exaggerated uses of humorous remonstration could be sanctioned only when affairs, in particular government affairs, were disordered. Buy for essay writing services and you will receive professional plagiarism-free essay written from scratch! The powerful uses of joking are also evident in the political sphere, where jests and jibes were used to gain advantage in argument for both principled and self-seeking purposes. There is a vast array of humorous writing in traditional Chinese literature of almost every period and genre, yet humor in traditional Chinese literature was rarely included in the primary canon. In some circles humor and clowning were understood to be powerful, perhaps even capable of influencing the material reality of the subjects of their jokes, while at the same time they were considered inferior forms of expression. Thus humor, while abundant in Chinese writings, was regularly confined to the margins of official discourse and canonical literature.

Typical momme weight for silk

December 28, 2009Truly understand the momme weight; some skills are given below to distinguish some natural silk whether it is in high quality or inferior one.
The typical momme weight range for a few of the different silks are as follows:
Habutai silk – 5 to 16 momme weight
Raw silk – 35 to 40 momme weight
Chiffon – 6 to 8 momme weight
Gauze – 3 to 5 momme weight
Momme weight is usually shown as "mm."
When you are shopping for silk bedding or silk blankets and the salesperson starts talking about "momme weight" you will know exactly what they are talking about. And if he or she tries to sell you silk comforters with a momme weight of 8, you can educate that salesperson and tell him or her that 8 momme weight sheets are too lightweight to be a good choice for silk filled duvet and that they can try and sell their inferior product to someone else because you are not buying them. You are going to look for higher quality silk sheets that will last you a long time.
Just like you are an expert, and you will get the silk in a reasonable price and high-quality.

Buying Advice for the Bride

December 28, 2009When it comes to shopping for your Wedding gown, bring one or two people whose opinion you really value, too many people can make it very confusing as they normally all have different views and this can make it even more difficult to decide.
Bridal gowns can take up to six months to order in store and then there are fitting and alterations to be carried out, so you need to make sure that you allow plenty of time, there's nothing worse than feeling that you are being hurried into making a rush decision. If you don't have much time until your wedding, don't despair! Some designers will make Wedding dresses for a rush fee and we always have some discount wedding dresses which you can buy from stock.
Try to wear the right wedding dress style and color underwear, and a good bra can really help.
It's important to keep an open mind, because it's usually the cheap wedding dress you don't like on the hanger that you really love when it's on.
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