Freedom, flirtation and friendship - life was anything but sweet on the factory floor

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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A new book poses the query ... what were the ‘good old days’? Were they when people left school knowing there would be a steady job down the road, felt contented with little, made their own entertainment, had raucous fun on a seaside day out and valued companionship more than money?



Or should we use the phrase with heavy irony - thinking of grinding poverty, limited expectations and lives broken by arduous work? Should we think heartwarming or heartbreaking?


The Sugar Girls leaves us with these hovering questions. This vivid and richly readable account of women’s lives in and around the Tate & Lyle East London works in the Forties and Fifties is written as popular social history, played for entertainment.


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