Life of working

From the lyrics, "The song of a shirt" you can infer that the woman back then were treated very unfair. working day and night non-stop in raggy looking clothes, always hungry, and were not treated fair at all. the woman were thought to have nothing to live for or a soul, basically just another piece of machinary never stoping. Also they were worked to till they fell asleep, they never got rest. even when the fell asleep at work in there dream they would still be sowing. they worked till they died and were treated bad.