The long day :
the story of a New York working girl /
as told by herself.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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New York : Century Co., 1905.
- Summary
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A powerful examination of women in the late 19th-century workplace. Despite coming from a middle-class background, Richardson had to work in a factory to support herself for a time, and seems to have become truly familiar with life of an impoverished boarding-house shift worker--although some contemporary critics argue that she was actually a paid researcher hired to investigate the situation of working girls. Regardless of its origins, this first-person account is an unflinchingly realistic look at the hazards faced by struggling young women in the workplace: sexual harassment, abuse by management, malnutrition and exhaustion, drug use, etc. [PRBM].
- Physical Description
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viii, 303 p. :
ill. ;
20 cm.
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