Francis Cabot Lowel

1. The American system of labor was utterly changed due to the ambition to produce cloth. Because of the booming sensation of cloth, a textile mill contracted Samuel Slater to build a yarn-spinning machine and then a carding machine. The industrial espionage peaked in 1813 when Francis Cabot Lowel recreated the powered loom used in the mills of Manchester, England. Lowel became a huge factor in reorganizing and centralizing the American manufacturing process. Now that America had these powerful machines, the modern American factory was born. Thousands of people began to work in factories with awful working conditions. This led to Union’s forming and civilians realized they that they were beginning to get stuck in their certain social classes. As families were getting stuck in their social classes, they also hit a realization factor that the ability to remove women and children from work determined their family’s class status. Family members as young as eleven worked in the factories. This made it clear that an innocent and protected childhood was a
As the girl’s wages are continuing to fall, girls are uniting in anger and beginning to strike. The girls are not only striking because the decrease in their’ wages but also because the corporation is paying twenty-five cents a week towards the board of each operative, and the corporation believes it is the girls purpose to have the girls pay the sum. At the strike, I estimate to have seen as many as twelve or fifteen hundred girls turn out to protest without flags, or music, they are singing a song titled “I won’t be a nun.” Sadly, the strike did not work and I imagine wages will become more and more reduced over time, and this will lead to girls going to other employments. This protest was very unique because it was girls that were leading the way, I assume that if they wanted this strike to be successful, they should have campaigned more and been more aggressive than just singing songs mocking the