The domestic (home) lives of working-class families are proven to be adverse and miserable. For example, Louis Velerme’s Study of the Physical Condition of Cotton, Wool and Silk Workers, states that “the poorest live in the cellars and attics…. Commonly the height of the ceiling is six or six and half feet at the highest point”, which depicts that families consisting of more than one child are forced to live in such unfair circumstances, given that they live in such a small space, unable to sometimes stand upright. Furthermore, Alexander Schneer asserts in his article that “many rooms are more like pigsties than quarters for human beings”. This implies that the “households” were always dirty, the furnishings were limited and workers lived
