The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United...
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The Lowell Mills were 19th-century textile mills that operated in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, which was named after Francis Cabot Lowell; he introduced...
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and Factories in the Industrial United States Lowell mill girls Dublin, Thomas (1989). "Review: Lowell, Massachusetts and the Reinterpretation of American...
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large proportion of young women, known as Lowell mill girls) who lived in the dormitories and worked in the mills. The textile industry in New England experienced...
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farming families, as textile workers. These women became known as the Lowell mill girls. Women lived in company run boarding houses with chaperones and were...
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Lucy Larcom (section Lowell Mill Girl)
Revolution in Lowell. The Lowell Mills were hiring young women as factory workers and older women to run the boarding houses where the Lowell Mill Girls lived...
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workers (young women [age 15–35] known as the Lowell Mill Girls) of the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills of the early American Industrial Revolution...
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1840s. The mill workers, young single women called Mill Girls, generally came from the farm families of New England. By the 1850s, Lowell had the largest...
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Eliza Jane Cate (category Lowell mill girls)
"Leisure Hours of the Mill Girls" in the Lowell Offering of 1842 have been attributed to her. She also wrote pieces for the Lowell Offering's successor...
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Wheelockville District – located within Uxbridge Whitinsville, Massachusetts – mill village in Northbridge Mill town Lowell Mill Girls Industrial Revolution...
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labor organizations may originate from the labor protests of the Lowell mill girls in 1836. The imagery of wage slavery was widely used by labor organizations...
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3084°W / 42.6482; -71.3084 The Boott Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts were a part of an extensive group of cotton mills, built in 1835 alongside a power canal...
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nearby mills, such as the Lowell Mill Girls. As the textile industry grew, immigration also grew. By the 1850s, immigrants began working in the mills, especially...
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Adelia Sarah Gates (category Lowell mill girls)
a governess, farm worker and teacher. At the age of 22, Gates moved to Lowell, Massachusetts to take up work in the cotton factories. In her thirties...
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Abba Goddard (section Lowell Offering)
covered a broad range of topics; it was widely read by many of the Lowell Mill Girls. In 1846, Abba Goddard contributed to a compilation of poetry, essays...
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Boston Manufacturing Company (category Cotton mills in the United States)
Center For the Arts (part of the Waltham Mills Artists Association), and other housing. Lowell Mill Girls Lowell Mills List of National Historic Landmarks...
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Margaret Foley (category Lowell mill girls)
Foley traveled to Lowell, Massachusetts to work in the spinning room of the Merrimack Corporation as a mill girl. While working at the mill, Foley began a...
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Harriet Hanson Robinson (section Mill worker)
during the free periods, the boys and girls could play or read or even go home for a while. In 1836, the Lowell Mill Girls organized another strike, or "turn...
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Gender Gap Report Income inequality metrics International inequality Lowell Mill Girls Material feminism For other wage gaps Gay wage gap Racial wage gap...
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to local farms. Lowell looms were managed by specialized employees, many of the employed were unmarried young women ("Lowell mill girls"), and owned by...
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agitation for higher wages and better working conditions, such as by the Lowell mill girls in Massachusetts, many factory owners began to replace female workers...
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established. Lowell Offering begins publication. By now, Lowell mills had recruited over 8,000 Lowell mill girls. Population: 20,796. 1841 Lowell Cemetery...
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Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (section Lowell)
Chamberlain (1797–1886) was a textile mill worker who wrote sketches and poetry that were published in The Lowell Offering. Her co-worker, Harriet Hanson...
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cotton mill in Waltham, Massachusetts. This mill was the first one in America to use power looms, and proved so successful that Patrick Jackson (Lowell's successor...
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working, which was duplicated at Lowell, Massachusetts and several other new cities throughout the state. Mill girls, some as young as ten, were paid...
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written by female mill workers in New England mills. Many of the women who were contributing to the magazine were working in mills in Lowell, Massachusetts...
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Louisville, Kentucky. Smith's vision was to create a western milling center to rival Lowell, Massachusetts, but using steam-powered machinery fired by locally...
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Elisha Bartlett (category Mayors of Lowell, Massachusetts)
018-817. During his tenure he was faced with the challenges of the Lowell Mill Girls strike in 1836, and the Panic of 1837. An Address of the Birth of...
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to escape a town crippled by the Civil War—men lost to soldierhood, Lowell's mills starved of southern cotton—the cadre of spunky young women found Seattle's...
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