This is such a well-researched, well-crafted book about the, quite frankly, hecking horrible conditions of working of women and children in the industrial, and pre-industrial era. The title fooled me and I thought I was going into the tales of actual factory work, but this is so much more. You’ll get everything from the children sweeping chimneys and the ways an entire family would work day in day out to sustain themselves to the employers who created entire self-sustained villages for their employees and the ladies who wanted unions for all. 

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me an ARC in exchange for my honest review.