Sweatshops
"They say a day has 24 hours. That's a bluff. A day has 12 coats. . . .
I have still two coats to make of the 12 that I got yesterday. So it's still Monday,
with me. My Tuesday won't begin before about two o'clock this afternoon."
- From A Sweatshop Romance by Abraham Cahan, 1898
"They say a day has 24 hours. That's a bluff. A day has 12 coats. . . .
I have still two coats to make of the 12 that I got yesterday. So it's still Monday,
with me. My Tuesday won't begin before about two o'clock this afternoon."
- From A Sweatshop Romance by Abraham Cahan, 1898
One of the rooms in the tenement apartments might have been set up as a sweatshop. Everyone in the family needed to work. Mostly women and children worked in the sweatshops. They didn't earn very much money and the small room was crowded with workers, working with little light and air.
Some men, women and children worked in the factories. A factory workers' day would last 10 hours but a sweatshop workers' day went from early morning to late night, sometimes working 7 days a week.
