The Long Day
Author | : Dorothy Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1905 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105041012241 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Long Day written by Dorothy Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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].