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They appear natural and commonplace only because the victims are trained in endurance , not in the vocabulary of expression . There are thousands of farmers ' wives in every rural community who endure hardships undreamed of in the sweatshops of commerce . There are no laws to protect them from long hours , nor any to protect their children . They average sixteen hours a day , while the hardest working man takes at least two hours at noon in which to rest . They may complain of backache , of rheumatism , of any number of stitches in their sides , but they never complain of the long , long day 's work . On the contrary , if the worst comes to worst , especially during the harvest season , they think they will get up an hour earlier the next morning and maybe `` get through '' what they have to do . When one of them dies of the strain , she just dies .