Factory workers often created music that servd as a form of protest and a way to get them through the long hours of the workday. After reading the lyrics from the "Song of the Shirt", describe what life must have been like for these textile factory workers.
Women who worked in the factories must have been very tired from working almost everyday of the week and having only a couple of hours a sleep a night. Being played minimum wage, life was not easy for the factory worker. Some of the women would fall asleep on the job and would be whipped awake by mangers. They would work through the night and i can image it was exhausting. It explains in the song that every women eyes where red and dim, this mean they where very tired and probably in unhealthy working conditions. A lot of the times women and workers would get injured because of the heavy machines they where working with. Must of the women were starving and had little food to keep them going. They never had a break, which was not right. Conditions like these would never be seen nowadays as it was slave labor.
