The Book of Laws' Soup law has the discontent penalty while Moonshine negated it. While it may be a strange game mechanic, it made sense as the survivors spiked the tasteless soup with alcohol to make it more palatable.
At first, you might be forgiven for wondering why the snow quickly evaporates with a fizzle and releasing vapor as it goes. Steam is not a likely culprit because of the temperatures involved make it impossible to evaporate but consider that the snow is not completely water based. The sublimation point of Carbon Dioxide is -78.5C (-109.2F) on a planet where reaching that point is normal and regular on the ground to say nothing of in the atmosphere. That's right, it's not just snowing, it's snowing sublimated Carbon Dioxide and rising above that temperature melts it back to a gaseous state which is released into the air.
However, given that Carbon Dioxide is heavier than air, if that much of it had frozen and landed in the crater as snow only to quickly sublimate again, the entire city would be asphyxiated.
Upon completing the Last Autumn scenario with a perfect generator (no flaws, plus additional research), the ending screen will declare New Liverpool's survival chance as merely average. While this might simply indicate how dire the Frost is, you must consider that a Generator, without any upgrades, only provides 1 heat level in a small area. That might be enough for the first days in the regular scenarios, but as the temperature drops, your city will freeze unless you research new generator upgrades. The Generator can provide the heating necessary for surviving the Frost, but you must have the initiative and knowledge to fully utilize it's potential.
Automatons can work on workplaces day and night, only pausing a few times to refuel themselves, but they're unaffected by efficiency-boosting effects such as shrines or agitators. Considering they're automated machines, and therefore indifferent to faith or motivational speeches, this makes sense. Foremen, however, do affect Automatons. This may seem weird at first, but it is possible that the assigned Foreman, instead of merely ordering the automaton around, makes sure it integrates into the workplace quickly and efficiently (if you zoom in buildings manned by automatons, you'll see that they physically connect themselves to the machinery). Given that Automatons were present even before the Frost, it is not hard to imagine that Foremen could have experience with coordinating their usage in workplaces.
All children are able to do the work as the adults. That means they must be big enough and mature enough for these jobs. What happened to the younger children?
The Last Autumn has people moving up and down worker classes and almost complete gender equality. At best, this means that the Old World before the Frost was much more egalitarian than our real world counterpart; at worst, it means that skilled labor was in such a short supply that the rigid gender roles of the 19th were abandoned as new hands were desperately needed for the work.
