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Usually, a white female slave takes on supervisory roles in the field although most of them are employed in homes fulfilling domestic duties (Collins, 2004). However, these women were rather cruelly stigmatized by being labeled as "white trash" by black people (Pearson, 2004). During the Industrial revolution, women's work has migrated from domestic tasks to outside work. They were employed in factories because they are considered a source of cheap labor (Lewis, 2005).
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