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834 woman's work in the world's clothing...
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interval of half-an-hour for dinner , a cessation for other meals being a bite never now allowed and then . The / ' work the ers themsel usuall y ate ex " p how ressed they it 5 could for — no
convenience beyond what the y steam-engine fire might afford being provided for preparing food , it was t usually broug t ht l to ft
mi standing them ht , read occur for y dressed an wai hour tin , by t hus their more to friends be ti ll t en , and convenien until frequentl was t op por y it tun was ity e
fibre hardl g y ea As tab no l , e from time was having g set apart en co for vere cleaning d , with dust the machinery floating
t t his mea . necessary l time o b pera some tion had of the , too work , alw - ays to le be and performed even then durin th g ,
nominal lialf-hour y for dinner was grud peop ged , by their hard tasko ma ff s th ters is , and the iod hands from of the the lon too day tardy of clock toil , were which some meas ti mes d
pushed on by per cunning overlooker g , and all , thus robbed of a tion of even this brief resting . In busy times niht
por even did not always bring a respite space , but throughout its weary g hours the indefatigable steam-enine still continued ceaselessl
g y human propelling at * tendan shuttl t e and were spindle ted with to w unflagg ait uon ing t speed heir movemen , and their ts
more with unremitting than flesh and assiduity bloo expec . d cou Then ld , endure when p this the was reular found t i ht be - gg
re wor l k s o g f wor tem kers began whose , and beds the wer app e never tices , s were uffered sep to get ted cold into , one ay set continuall , lacing the other in the wretched
alternation which divided y rep their lives between exhausting labour and exhausted sleep . Under the supervision of hard-hearted
irresp mani str o i pes the festation ible punished overs of eer the over s , terror sli -powering ghtest Commission kept failure them fatigue , to o which . r thei even The r tasks was th evidence e invo , eventuall and lun taken cruel tary by Parliamentary y
who mas appointed s had of s himself uffering to enquire experienced ; but into a record the all s he ubject penned described , revealed by the brings hand a fri of erh ghtful one s
work yet m ers ore 1 under vividl the y new before reign us of the machinery wretched , and condition , William p Hutton of ap the
of Birmingham , in his well-known autobiography , has left a touching demned to picture that of mansion what childhood of despair had a Factory to endure of when the 18 con th
-, year century s old . , the Sent youngest as an apprentice and far the to smallest the Mill of when the onl 300 y work seven - because
his peop writes baby le there " stature I had emp now could loyed to , not rise strapped otherwise at five to hi every g have h clogs morning reached or pattens his summer work ; and he
nient winter , , to for the seven master years ; , to to be submit the to constant the cane companion , whenever , of conve the -
834 Woman's Work In The World's Clothing...
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1864, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011864/page/46/
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