Una Carlin found the photograph in an old scrapbook in Londonderry's Tower Museum while carrying out research for a collection honouring the city's factory workers ... photo's modern feel Earlier ...

Factory laborers, most of whom were women, worked long hours for low wages, often in cramped spaces. Their cause attracted attention from the Industrial Ladies Garment Worker's Union (ILGWU ...

Yet middle-class women felt the pressure of the culture telling them to stay home. Many also had little desire to work in the nine-to-five jobs open to them. They didn't want to be factory workers ...

A jewellery maker who appealed for help finding a woman from an old photograph who inspired her latest work says ... scrapbooks" of factory life. "I wanted a kind of modern picture.