Working With the Working Woman

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Working With the Working Woman

by Cornelia Stratton Parker

EN·~6 hours·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

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6:30:38

Description

In this candid exploration the author steps beyond the usual scholarly treatises on labor, choosing instead to follow women who spend their days amid the clatter of machines and the wear of long shifts. By living alongside them, she records the ordinary rhythms, jokes, and small comforts that shape their work lives, offering a glimpse of the factory floor that is rarely filtered through distant theory.

The narrative is deliberately modest—no sweeping reforms or hidden scandals are promised, only an honest account of what the author observes. While acknowledging moments of contentment, she also highlights the broader social dimensions that bind workers, their families, and the community. The result is a thoughtful portrait that invites listeners to consider labor not merely as an economic problem but as a lived social experience, especially as it pertains to the everyday woman in the workplace.

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Language

en

Duration

~6 hours (375K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Markus Brenner, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2008-03-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

CS

Cornelia Stratton Parker

1885–1972

A writer of travel, labor, and memoir, she is best remembered for the deeply personal portrait she drew of her husband in An American Idyll. Her work carries the feel of lived experience, mixing social observation with warmth and directness.

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