Welsh History of Women Factory Workers
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Our women ancestors worked hard. Here's what some of them did in the factories of early 20th C industrial Swansea, Wales.
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Women have always done hard work. I think that this job would have been so demanding. No time to rest after work as I would assume she had a family to care for once she got home. Never ending.
Thank you , I enjoy all your videos and you have a voice that is lovely to listen to. I have ancestors that worked in the steel works, hell on earth from what I understand, and some ancestors where the family were Nailors, nail makers, and, from what I understand, the whole family, wives, children and granny, would have been involved in making the nails. It would take about 20+ blows of the hammer to make one nail back then and they could make about four a minute, or according to some records up to 3000 this day 'and struck 64,000 blows with my hammer.' Not as dangerous as tinplating by a long way, but exhausting for the few coins a day they were paid. The 'good old days' were not so good after all.
Thanks for sharing and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos :). Wow, that's a lot of work. I have some blacksmiths in the family too and I can only imagine the kind of physical strain they endured. And I love seeing examples where it's clear how everyone had to pitch in to get the work done.
my great grandfather/grandfather and my dad worked in the melin griffiths tin plate works.
Oh wow, really shows how occupations pass down in the family. I also have a couple lines that look like that, generation after generation of factory work. Thanks for sharing :)
I’ve not seen any of my female ancestors working in any mills. Most of all the women in my family were housewifes.
It definitely had to do with social class as well. My Nanna worked all her life because she and her husband were very poor so they both had to help bring in money.