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Forming connections between materials and ways to trace the Magdalene…
Forming connections between materials and ways to trace the Magdalene women's labour
Wringing - wringing wet, wringing out clothes, hand-wringing
Wringing wet:
soaked, saturated, dripping.
Wring out
clothes/cloths/fabric: squeeze out water. To draw out, extract, pull, pull out, pull up, take out.
To squeeze or twist especially so as to make dry or to extract moisture or liquid. To extract or obtain by or as if by twisting and compressing. To twist so as to strain or sprain into a distorted shape
Remove, usually with force or effort. Usually done with hands or a machine (a clothes wringer or mangler)
Words that can shape methods & appearance:
Strain, distort/distorting shape, forceful, squeeze, twist, compress, moisture, liquid, pull
Hand-wringing
clasping or squeezing of the hands as a means of distress, concern, anxiety.
Hands
Burns to skin: chemically and from using the steam press and irons
Cold - wet fabric, dripping fabric
Twisting, squeezing, folding - repetition
Cupped, strained, over-worked, tense, cold, injured
One SMH article states the effects of consistent work on the steam press and the electric polisher caused some women severe arthritis
"We washed everything from sheets to businessmen's shirts. You had to scrub stained things by hand, there was bleach in the soap and your knuckles were raw"
"At first I was put to making the Limerick lace for wedding dresses and the like; it was very delicate, there was a lot of work. The nuns must have got good money for it. Then I got bad headaches, so they put me to ironing the big, heavy habits."
Wire
Confined, trapped, enclosed - inmate, penitents
Locked in dormitories to sleep, let out again at 6am
In 2009, Malcolm Turnbull described the Magdalene laundries as prisons for women forced into labour with substandard living conditions and minimal education
Soap/suds/chemicals
Corrosive, burns, lesions
Handling dangerous/industrial-strength chemicals
Goodpasture Syndrome
: a disease caused by inhalation of chemicals over many years resulting in end stage kidney and liver failure
Many women developed lasting health problems from the chemicals