Hartzell July 25‚ 2012 Hist 135 In “Women‚ Work and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills‚” the author talks about the working life and it’s foundation in the early industrial revolution by talking about the Lowell Mill girls. During this time‚ America was undergoing a transformation from agricultural country to a powerful industrialized nation. Today‚ men are holding more strenuous factory jobs but back in those days‚ women occupied them. Most women were between the ages of 15 to 30 and half
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Thomas Dublin in “Women‚ Work‚ and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills” In Thomas Dublin’s article‚ “Women‚ Work‚ and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills‚” he talks about the conditions of factories. He describes the work and the personal problems that women endured working in factories during the Industrial Revolution. Lowell was originally a rural area. “In 1820‚ there had been no city at all-only a dozen family farms along the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford.” (Dublin 264). A year later‚ a group
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The Lowell textile mills The Lowell textile mills were a new transition in American history that explored working and labor conditions in the new industrial factories in American. To describe the Lowell Textile mills it requires a look back in history to study‚ discover and gain knowledge of the industrial labor and factory systems of industrial America. These mass production mills looked pretty promising at their beginning but after years of being in business showed multiple problems and setbacks
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Lowell Mill Girls Kenneth Mooney U.S. History I Winter 12-D-8-HST201-2 Colorado State University – Global Campus March 8‚ 2013 Lowell Industries Lowell‚ Massachusetts is located in Middlesex County and was named after Francis Cabot Lowell. Mr. Lowell was an industrialist who helped create the first planned industrial community. During the industrial revolution‚ Lowell dominated the woolen and cotton textile industry for over 100 years
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numerous mills built in New England during the birth of the Industrial Revolution‚ the Boott Mills in Lowell‚ Massachusetts remains one of the most iconic and culturally noteworthy examples. Built on the powerful Merrimack River‚ the Boott cotton mills were the sites of the first examples of the advancement of the “Waltham-Lowell system”‚ a labor and production model which would gain widespread adoption across the United States up until the mid-19th century . This model relied on hiring local women from
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top of the daily deaths‚ wages dropped and riots began. Women and children began to question whether the mills in Lowell‚ Massachusetts were a new beginning for them‚ or the end of it all. In the early to mid 1800’s‚ Francis C. Lowell‚ an American born and raised in Massachusetts‚ created mills to generate a working place for women and children. While the mills provided shelter and money for girls‚ these were considered dead end jobs. The mills were hazardous‚ the hours were long‚ and the wages were
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shifting dynamics. Specifically‚ operatives at the Lowell mills in Massachusetts had a relatively distinct life experience when compared with their counterparts who were engaged in Northern industries outside of Lowell. While Lowell operatives were certainly subject to the harsh work conditions‚ paternalistic gender relations‚ and expected religious standards of the day‚ the inherent stability of the Lowell
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hand. The machines made their work more efficient because it was faster and easier to produce goods than ever before. The workers in these factories were unmarried women between the ages of fifteen and thirty from the middle class. The fact that women were working in the factories caused conflict because it challenged a woman’s role in society. Prior to this time‚ women were supposed to work in home and make sure that the household ran smoothly. The new role of women was that they worked in the
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U.S. History Lowell Mill Girls In 1832‚ Lowell‚ Massachusetts was little more than a factory village‚ until the development of the water powered plant like the on in Waltham‚ Massachusetts. Soon Lowell started to grow and help was in great demand. News of the new water powered factories and the high wages they were offering to all working classes of people traveled to all parts of New England. The stories of the Lowell mills gave new life to lonely and dependent women in distant New England
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first and significant industrial cities in America was Lowell‚ Massachusetts. Wealthy men from Boston built massive factories on the Merrimack River in Lowell‚ MA. These factories created cotton and wool which soon produced more than the leading mills in Britain. America was gradually shifting into a nation of big factories where many Americans would find employment as laborers in these factories. Many men and women were employed at the mills for a variety of responsibilities such as carding‚ spinning
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