Summary Of Rose Cohen's Out Of The Shadow

Rose Cohen’s “Out of the Shadow discusses about a Russian Jew who immigrated to the U.S. for equality and opportunities. She provides her personal aspect of immigration in the late 1800s. It also addresses the effects of rapid growth of industry, population, role of women in the social and economic system and also the complications of religion and society in America. However our other textbook “Give me Liberty” by Eric Foner has a lot of similarities to Out of the Shadow, Foner talked about many historical events that we can relate to Cohen’s.

One important historical event I want to discuss about would be how Jewish women on the lower East side played a role in working, in Out of the Shadow Rose explains that her father had sent her and her other sister to New York so that they could find a steady employment in the tenement stitching shop, her father also worked in the garment trade but he knew the demand was greater for women workers who were hired at lower wages than men. At least it was an improvement for women, women were gradually taking over the workforce. In Foner’s textbook
During a depression period. The great Drepression in 1893 was one of the worst in American history with the unemployment rate throughout a half decade, domestic and political causes of the depression. Rose was not employed for long during the great depression years, she had explained to us in the book that one by one the men in her shop were getting laid off, soon came Rose’s turn she stayed home and her fathers shop was closed altogether. Three months had passed since they earned any money and finally when Rose was getting a job her position was to be a servant and she would six dollars a month but her mother refused to let her do a job like this. Everything they had saved up was gone and soon they had to borrow money to pay for their