C.S. Lewis visited the Electric and Musical Industries Ltd., in Hayes, Middlesex on April 18, 1944 in order to answer questions from the factor workers.
Question: 
C.S. Lewis:
I don’t see how the problem would be different for a factory worker than for anyone else. The primary thing about any man is that he is a human being, sharing all the ordinary human temptations and assets. What is the special problem about the factory worker? But perhaps it is worth saying this: Christianity really does two things about conditions here and now in this world:
(1) It tries to make them as good as possible, i.e., to reform them; but also
(2) It fortifies you against them in so far as they remain bad.
If what was in the questioner’s mind was this problem of repetition work, then the factory worker’s difficulty is the same as any other man confronted with any sorrow or difficulty. People will find God if they consciously seek from Him the right attitude towards all unpleasant things . . if that is the point of the question?
"Answers to Questions on Christianity," God in the Dock (Eerdmans: 1970) 49-50.
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