"Long hours, severe restrictions, and horrible work conditions" also kind of describes domestic service! While the relative horribleness of the conditions is debatable, the length of the workday and the severeness of the restrictions were in many cases worse in domestic service.

Oral histories from people in service in the early twentieth century offer the most information about what it was like to participate in that part of the labor force (where accounts from earlier periods are often filtered through observers or have to be pieced together), and they show a thoroughly unpleasant set of working conditions. Women describe starting their first full-time jobs in a stranger's house at the age of fourteen, being given unending tasks, and facing harsh attitudes from not just employers but older staff members (who don't seem to have had a class consciousness with younger generations, and sometimes even allied with older employers against teenage staff). The workday could start before the employer's family got up in the morning, and end after they went to bed, since there was no concept of working in shifts for this kind of job.

Many oral histories relate degrading treatment faced by those in service, done as a way to remind servants (who by definition were around employers constantly and saw them at their least dignified and most vulnerable) that they were outsiders and socially beneath their employers. Lucy Delap reports in Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century Britain that "Lady Astor made a habit of offering her maid Rosina Harrison a chocolate, but only after biting into it herself, to establish whether it was a flavour she liked." Even more middle-class employers could change a servant's name within the household or require her to kneel on the floor to take off his boots. There might be household rules about not having friends from outside or any sweethearts, or how the tiny amount of free time could be spent, or how they dressed when out of uniform. Where earlier generations seem to have been psychologically prepared to show deference in the face of toffee-nosed employers, by the 1890s (when the shift that you asked about was in full swing) there was a strong sense that this was humiliating and unfair.

By contrast, a late nineteenth-century factory job would start after breakfast and end before dinner, and the factory foreman's authority extended only to the work and workday itself. The work would be continuous, but delineated by the factory bell/whistle. There was a great deal more freedom for a factory worker and less subservience.