"Really have one break per day. It will be a one-hour break just for you
to have your lunch and just relax and have a cup of tea and read the
paper for a bit."
1950s:
"We had five, five canteens with cooks, waitresses, we had three
gaffers’ dining rooms. That’s, first stop when you started a job..."
Victorian times:
"I found that in the grinding wheels worked by steam power, the engine
stops at dinnertime for an hour but not on Saturday. Martin Herefry,
aged 11 said 'we never worked at meal times the man was very kind to
us, I have to live badly and if I had no dinner he always gave me a
bit. I worked in the crinoline factory once. There we worked in our
breakfast half hour and in our dinner hour and we were forced to
whether we liked it or not."
Questions:
Which is the right image for each time period?
Which young steel worker do you think might have to work during their lunch break?
How long do you think is a fair time to have a lunch break?
If you were a steel worker, in which time period would you like to have a lunch break?
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