This curfew allowed little time for other activities and outings with friends. Not only the curfew, but the demanding and extended six-day work schedule in the factories did not leave much time for women to have other commitments. I found myself going back in time to the pre-revolutionary era with Beatrice Plummer. As a midwife, Beatrice worked around the clock and had no privacy. Similar to Lowell, the women worked 11-hour days and went home in the evenings to their boarding houses with many other women, leaving them with little.