... respectful to work, and if they did it was assumed that their husbands were not rich enough to support the family. Most didn't even have to do the work at home as they had people to do it for them. This made them increasingly dissatisfied and idle and as time went on they wanted to be given the opportunity to work ... 12 hour days every day. Another industry that had a great many women working for it was the "sweated trades", maybe even as many as 950,000. The "sweated trades" were businesses where women were made to all sit together in a stuffy room with no windows thus causing sweat a...

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