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Assignment 4

One concept that is mentioned in Morgan’s and Federici’s works’ is labor. In Federici’s book, she discusses at one point of the conditions women had to often go through in Europe in order to survive. In Morgan’s book, she discusses mostly about how women are perceived in the New World and Africa. These perceptions often dealt with marriage, children, their bodies, and labor. Even though both authors’ views were based on different locations, there is still a connection between the two works.

Federici mentions how women were often left behind to take care of the home and the children. Their husbands would work and it was not enough to sustain a life, so this would cause the women to work. During that time, women did not get paid so much compared to men. They often had to purchase the cheapest food thy could get. Even that was not enough and it would lead to riots in France. They had to leave their children behind at home just to work since they were living in a lower class area.

In Morgan’s book, Vespucci mentions that women would never refuse labor even when having children. However, it did not seem appropriate for them to do that since they are women. They should be maintaining the home and taking care of the children. He never saw it as something more modern. The women also would not work in the house because they were too busy trying to do labor to sustain a life as well, just the women in Europe of Federici’s book.

In both books they discussed the labor of women of different locations, but still seem to be connected through the fact that they could not refuse labor because it was their way of sustaining their own life along with their children’s. It does not matter of the location but women were still getting the same kind of hassle.