This curfew left little time for other activities and outings with friends. Not only the curfew, but also the demanding and long six-day work schedule in the factories did not leave much time for women to indulge in other commitments. I found myself going back in time to pre-revolutionary times with Beatrice Plummer. As a midwife, Beatrice worked all day and had no privacy. Similar to Lowell, women worked 11 hour days and returned home in the evening to their boarding houses with many other women, leaving them with very little money.