The Research On Women Workers In Tianjin During The Republic Of China Period

TianJin, an important trade city, with the developed traffic system, lied in the north of China in the eastern coastal areas. Industry and commerce developed rapidly to a certain extent after it became a trade port. With the city flourishing in the economy, there was an gradually increasing capacity of population of other areas. A lot of refugees who came from provinces around Tianjin surged to it in order to look for living space. Among them, there were many women. On the basis of the women's education and the women's right movements, a batch of women workers who could represent occupation women appeared in TianJin. They struggled and made a good effort to look for living space in the prosperous modern city. Their quantites, profession, education, wage and so on had a relationship with their family life quality, marriage, entertainment, consumption and social association. Generally speaking, in the modern cities, work conditions of women workers were not optimistic. Not only did they work in bad conditions, long hours, excessive intensity, but also earned low wages . In order to have a larger living space, they took various ways to struggle with capitalists.Women workers struggled to live in the society, having a great impact on the status of the traditional women in family and society. It was the occupation that made them work out of family and gave them a new image and a new part in the society. Their striving for jobs and obtaining wages could not only help to their domestic subsidies, but also improved their own living abilities, which made them different from the image of the traditional women in family. From material life to spirit life, the problems on women were almost involved in all aspects. Social development incessantly changed the woman's life and destinies while women's change and development at the same time promoted social advance and history progress.