As stated by Noshomusho Shokokyoku and Shokko Jijo, Condition of the Factory Workers in 1990 a normal working day in a plant in Okaya was thirteen to fourteen hours.The total meal and break time in the Okaya silk factory was an average total of 40 minutes a break per day. You may agree that one of the benefits is that the workers get independents but, in this case there are more cost than benefits. …show more content…
One elderly former silk factory worker remembered that he father accepted 100 yen each for his two daughters and sent them to work in Kawagishi. In 1906, 100 yen could build a two-story house. In this case the parents are promising to have their daughters work at a silk factory. In document E a cost would be that the daughter or daughters would have to leave their family's and would have to work at the silk factory for the rest of there life's. If the daughters quit working at the silk factory there parents would have to pay 20x times more than the earnest