Women Working In Factories

Imagine working thirteen hours a day. Not to mention, only receiving a thirty minute break. The life of a factory worker was extremely crucial, especially for young women and children. Both young women and children were being treated unfair, almost like slaves. The working conditions were terrible, the boarding houses and factories were overpacking, young women and children were being overworked with the lack of sleep. The factory life had such an big impact on young women and children. Overall, working in a factory everyday was life challenging.
Working in a factory was exasperating and tough. Young women and children went through a handful of challenges each day. First, the factory conditions abhorret. “The din and clatter of these five
Working in a mill changed young women.”It is a common remark, that by the time a young lady has worked in a factory one year, she will lose all relish for the quiet, fireside comforts of life, and the neatness attendant upon order and precision. (Faragher, 146)” Young women and children were abstracted from their loved ones. Majority of the women laboring in the mill, were mothers and wives. Women were not able to guide their families in day to day task- “to teach them the most important of all lessons, the art of being useful members in the world,ornaments in society and blessings to all around them,-they, themselves, have need to be instructed in the very first principles of living well and thinking right. (Faragher, 146)” Children were greatly affected too. Children were “driven up to the “clockwork” by the whip”(Kennedy, 289)” Sometimes children were quickly dropped in cold to wake them up formulate them for that day's labor. Due to overcrowding, women and children were robbed of their education. Between laboring all day and attempting to get some sleep, there was not any time to study. Education being neglected and families being torn apart, both influenced the change in the young women and
While the young women and children was getting ready for their departure, the commander would gather the women and children in a wagon. “Let us say a word in regard to the manner in which they are stowed in the wagon, which may find a similarity only in a manner in which slaves are fastened in the hold of a vessel. It is long, and the seats so close that it must be very inconvenient. (Kennedy, 294)” Not mention, the young women and children got physically abused. Boh women and children would be guided up to he “clockwork” with the whip.(Kennedy, 289)” Comparatively like slaves. “One girl eleven years of age who had her leg broken with a billet of wood; another who had a board split over her head by a heartless monster in the shape of an overseer of a cotton mill “paradise”.(Kennedy, 289)” Young women and children were driven away from their peaceful familiar surroundings to become someone's puppet, like a slave, and surrender their soul and freedom to brutal bullies and