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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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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with the help of British artisans. This technological advancement created a demand for workers. Even though women didn’t possess much rights and were not allowed to own property or have a say in the distribution of family assets. They were still obligated to work in the family farm‚ attend the house and raise the children. Women were seen as cheap labor and were paid little for their work. As stated by Harriet Robinson‚ “in the eyes of her overseer she was but a brute‚ a slave‚ to be beaten‚ pinched
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The woman with the alabaster Jar - reply to the editor SC208 Women in the New Testament Kim Stephen-Pope The following is a critical study of a story of the woman with the alabaster jar. I intend to look at this story in the gospel with a new fresh microscope‚ a new vision of analysis that has been emerging over the last thirty years. Putting aside the historical-critical approach I am looking at this story through a reader-response or narrative criticism focus. I realize that approachs of
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S. History Mr. Wilson 2014/11/10 Compare and Contrast the Opinions of Lowell Girls In the 19th century‚ some female workers called Lowell girls were women who worked in textile factories that some of girls thought it is a good opportunity for female to work outside of their homes and got chances to reflect more women roles in the society so they were satisfied and happy of their jobs; however‚ some people believe that Lowell Girls were treated unfairly because they had bad working conditions‚ long
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