Hard Work

Hard Work

Full title of the film: "Hard Work: 'To Make Both Ends Meet' : Maine Women's Voices, 1888." From Folkfilms.com: "In 1888 the Maine State Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics conducted a survey to assess working conditions for women in the state’s shops and factories. The bureau hired Flora Haines of Bangor to complete the survey. She spoke with women in the workplace and handed out over six hundred questionnaires that asked about health and safety issues, wages and work hours, sanitary conditions in the boarding houses, and other matters....At the end of the questionnaire was this statement: 'Make any suggestions that you think will tend to improve your condition at work.' Hundreds of women responded....In this documentary the women's voices are brought to life again to tell the story of working conditions for women in the latter part of the 19th century in Maine. Using interviews, historical photos, and video from present day factories 'Hard Work' details the rise of the female labor force in the state's mills and factories and explores the conditions that women had to endure both on and off the job."

Sharkey, Jim (writer & producer)

2004

Bruce, Laureen (writer)

Toner, Carol (writer & commentator)

Hough, Mazzie (narrator)

English

Film

1888, Maine

No

Folkfilms.com

Documentary

English

WorldCat

http://www.folkfilms.com/New_Folder/Hard_Work.htm

http://www.folkfilms.com/Video/HARDWORK.wmv (preview available here)

http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3457/ItemId/14071/Default.aspx