The Washhouse: A Short Story

Not only were the workers not treated well, the building was also very unsanitary and unsafe. They worked on top of each other in cramped spaces where there were just lines and lines of sewing machines. The exit doors were locked in order to stop the workers from leaving to go to the bathroom. Only the foreman had the keys to unlock the doors.There were four elevators that had access to the factory floors but only one of them were in working condition. In order to get to the working elevator, the workers had to go down a long narrow hallway. This elevator was only able to hold 12 people at a time. Factory floors had no sprinkler system and the entire building only had one fire escape that was not big enough for all of the people in

It was eleven o'clock of a Spring night in Florida. It was Sunday. Any other night, Delia Jones would have been in bed for two hours by this time. But she was a wash-woman, and Monday morning meant a great deal to her. So she collected the soiled clothes on Saturday when she returned the clean things. Sunday night after church, she sorted them and put the white things to soak. It saved her almost a half day's start. A great hamper in the bedroom held the clothes that she brought home. It was so much neater than a number of bundles lying around.

It twas the night before Christmas and all through the house a creature was banging on the door Yolanda the magical Christmas hippo of dreams.

The workdays began before dawn in the coal country.When the men and boys got ready for work,they wore different clothing. The men wore rubber boots with coveralls,as the boys pulled on caps,overcoats, and laced up hobnailed boots.The young boys worked in the breaker.The breaker was the tall,gloomy part where coal was broken and

Workers in industrializing Russia lived a life full of suffering and exploitation. Due to the twelve-hour work shifts, majority of laborers lived within the factories. Despite this common practice, the majority of people were given no living quarters and slept where they worked. This exposed them to unsafe fumes and unhygienic spaces. Within the twelve-hour shifts, a total one and half-hour break was given each day to workers of all ages. Such difficult working and living conditions take a toll on the human body, as a result many individuals died because of the factory work. Furthermore, a great deal of factories were not up hygienic standards, putting the workers at risk. Individuals were once again tied to a piece of property, except this

The workers had to share a room with someone they had never met. Sometimes the owners would cram up to 40 people into a room. Everything that they did was strictly regimented, from the time they ate to the time they went to bed and woke up.

All these conditions are something that the workers didn’t really like to do. One of them was how they would spend long hours in the fields that was very tiring for them. For example, a day in the fields would usually last 10 hours and 12 hours in the mill. The workers who would work the hardest would be the ones who would strip the canes of sharp-edged leaves because they come home with cuts and blisters on their

Throughout the entirety of Marilynn Robinson’s “Housekeeping”, the idea of darkness, loss, and despair is of no new idea for any of the Stone family, this story surrounds the idea of change. The Granddaughters of Sylvie Stone, Ruth and Lucille, continue to be orphaned by the deaths. Exposed to changes such as being uprooted from their lives in Seattle only to be dropped off just prior to their mother’s own suicide, to the loss of their grandmother. These girls have been exposed to two drastically different parenting styles. Up until the introduction of their aunt Sylvie, their aunt has been elusive herself. In chapters one and two, you see this narrated description of the differences they have been exposed to because of deaths they have suffered.

The blacksmiths were busy in their shops working from dawn to dusk and six days a week. Sometimes, instead of being paid by money, they bartered their services for goods and food. But, they mostly spent their days by the burning hearth smelting, bending, turning and smiting iron. Their work was very important. They had one of the most important jobs in town. They always were

The lad stormed off after placing the hog and his belongings down to go check out the well out in front. The boy approached the stone well, and checked to see if everything was still in tact. It was, there was even more than one bucket. Jessime rotated the lever to uprooted the small bucket from the water below, he checked the water to see if it was any good and hauled it back to the church. He decided it would be best if he bathed after he finished with the swine.

The living conditions of the miners were worse in comparison to their work environments. Among many, there were only two mines that had shower facilities for its workers. The miners and their families referred the mine houses, as hovels in comparison to the village of Bienfait as they were forced to live in them so as to maintain the status of a permanent employee that guaranteed work for the miner. The houses were shacks with no lighting, insulation, or plumbing and were often infested with

When living life, humans see the world through various sets of lenses. These different ‘cultural lenses’ give different perspectives. Many factors contribute to varying perspectives including ethnicities, religious beliefs, social status, etc. Various different perspectives are seen in Beasts of the Southern Wild. These perspectives include those of the mainlanders and the general populace of The Bathtub, amongst many others.

The factories housed the latest technology of the Gilded Age, such as the assembly line. The mass production that the assembly line brought about made the rich richer, but did nothing to help the poor. They were working long hours in sometimes extremely dangerous conditions. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was considered one of the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city. Since, the owners locked the doors to the stairwells and exits - due to theft and unauthorized breaks - many of the workers were trapped with nowhere to go. As a result 147 garment workers died from smoking inhalation and falling to their deaths. In response a newspaper published an article titled “Fire Trap Victims Buried Draft New Law to Save Shop Workers,” covers the stories of the survivors and witnesses as well as questioning who was at fault and what further actions would take place (Document

Hello, old friend. It's been quite a long time since we last spoke, and you're probably wondering why I'm reaching out to you now, but don't worry, I'll get to that very shortly. To be blunt, things between us ended very badly, and while I won't force either us to relive every little detail, it's still such a damn shame how everything went down. But this isn't about that, nor do I want this to be some rant about you. Whatever happened happened, and I've long accepted that. Instead, I'd like to go back in time a bit to when our friendship was at its peak. Music is very much a vital part of my life, so naturally, after meeting in February of 2013, we very quickly found common ground over that. There was one band, however, that really sealed the

The location of the story plays a large role in understanding the character’s interactions.  The story opens with instructions on cleaning clothes upon a “stone heap” (Kincaid 118). In 1983 America, most households would have already had washing machines or at least a wash board and bucket rather than the older form of washing clothes at the river and utilizing stones. The next