Happy #SaintLucysDay to all my #Scandinavian friends on the feed who are celebrating today.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day )

Painting Print: #SaintLucy Art Print by #MaryMacArthur ( https://society6.com/product/saint-lucy_print )

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY To all@my Sisters everywhere! ❤️💕💕💕☮️ Mary Macarthur and the Sweated Industries Working class women had always had to earn their own living. The sweated industries consisted of piecework carried out in small workshops with low pay, poor conditions and long hours. Homeworking, one type of 'sweating', offered the worst conditions and pay for such tasks as sewing (see The Fashion for Shopping), making boxes, or wire brushes. Surveys found women often working from dawn until 11pm for less than a living wage in the same room with their children. The women chainmakers had one of the worst sweated jobs, working in sheds in the backyards of their homes hammering out chainlinks for 5s (25p) for a 50-hour week. Mary helped them get them get their wage doubled to continue ready this inspirational story on this link - https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/womens-history/visible-in-stone/mary-macarthur/ #internationalwomensday #venus #women #marymacarthur #fishingindustry #woman #womeninwork #makingitsafer #womenchangingtheworld #improvedworkingconditions #womenasmothers #womencampaigners #femme #ladies #girls #female #feminist #feminine #strongwomen #womenarestrong #womenleadtheway #womenhavetosticktogether #sistersaredoingitforthemselves #womenhavetofightforrights #sisterhood #womensrights #sisterstogether #womengetthingsdone #greatwomen #rightonsister (at Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2RqMYNKZb/?utm_medium=tumblr

Blog Update: Sold! Peter Arno for Mary MacArthur: Whoops! buff.ly/31YLNYx #PeterArno #WhoopsSisters #MaryMacArthur https://www.instagram.com/p/B1g2PLYBidP/?igshid=gmbncobu9fdo