Loughnan - Genteel Women in the Factories

In Genteel Women in the FActories, Loughnan comments on the poor working conditions in the munition factories as well as others during the war and describes the new social attitude toward classes and gender during the war.

Conditions of the the factories

• Air quality is poor and conducive of bad health
• dirty working conditions
• Hard work - from sheer lifting
• long shifts that are tiring

Women and gender conditions in the factories

• men look down on women, believe that they are unfit to work with the machine

Meshing of classes in the factories

• notices many lower class people doing "crude" things like swearing and other evils but still tries to befirend them