A Live Action Documentary Of The History And Its Impact On Society

While my time in Manchester was great, the constant days of factory smoke and the sound of ships docking got too repetitive. I decided to go somewhere else, and that’s when I heard about the Cromford Mills. I heard about a man named Richard Arkwright that has invented something that changed lots of lives. He invented what was is called a cotton spinning mill. This mill was amazing. It had increased the amount of spun cotton by an overwhelming amount. But what really caught my attention was that it did not need a skilled laborer, which fit me perfectly. In mid 1789, I worked my way to Cromford, England where I began my work at the Cromford Mills. I was one of 800 workers who worked in the mills, and it was great. When I entered the mills for

A common tool used in medieval times is a flour mill. Its main purpose is to make flour by grinding grains; which is a lengthy process. Along a river, a dam is built that blocks the stream. On the other side of the dam is a small opening allowing the water to flow through. There is a wheel with paddles or buckets along it that spins as the current passes through. Connected to that spinning wheel is a gear that propels the wheel and pushes the gears into the hopper. At the top of the hopper sits a person that controls the pouring of the grain into the twisting colander. The twisting colander grinds and purifies the grain turning it into flour.

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 to the people involved in them.

Until the 18th century, material form wool or cotton was manufactured mainly by what was known as the "putting out" system. A trader would provide the raw material to spinners and weavers. They in turn would spin the wool and/or cotton into threads and weave the threads into material. The material would then be sold back to the original provider at the going piecework rate of the day. Spinning and weaving was a true cottage or home industry because most of the spinners and weavers worked out of their cottage homes. The Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves in 1764, but only patented in 1770, contributed to the Industrial Revolution in the textile industry by revolutionising the process of cotton/wool spinning. Hargreaves and his family lived in Stan Hill, a small village in Lancashire, England

Rebecca Harding Davis’ “Life in the Iron Mills’ illustrates class conflict and the exploitative nature of American industrialization. It has been regarded as one of the first notable examples of American realism that portrayed the burdens of industrial factory workers. Davis uses slavery comparisons throughout the novella, this rhetoric threatens the potency of her work.

Mill workers took the jobs that were available to them, but was it really worth the risk? They not only endangered themselves by working in conditions where the lint filled their lungs, their kids joined on the bandwagon too. Although there were good things to be noted in the mill village (the sense of community for example), the bad outweighed it all in the end. The mill workers’ jobs costed them their lives with nothing to show for their hard work.

The two articles, Bound Labor in Southern Agriculture and The Lives and Labors of the Cotten Mill People are tied together by the common theme; labor. Throughout reading these articles we learn about the lives of the tenants, planters, mill workers, and mill owners. We studied the differences and similarities of the lives of African American men and families who were still in the labor force and how freedom wasn't so free for them. We also learned about the mill workers and their way of life.

To make the cloth the mill girls would put cotton on their spinning wheel to make thread. Then they would put the thread on a bobbin which the doffers (bobbin girls) brought to the weavers. Then the thread gets weaved into finished cloth which would then be

The authors of The Voice of Southern Labor outline the story of the 1934 the textile mill strike. Their focus is on the use

The Industrial Revolution was the greatest transformation period in human history. When people think about the Industrial revolution, they think about big steel, machines, and railroads. What’s missing are the exhausted, overworked laborers that operated the machinery that made things run. A prime example is the female textile mill workers from England and Japan. In the textile industry, women and young girls were the main employees. The main reason for this is that nimble fingers were needed to tend the spinning and weaving machines. Originally spinning and weaving were done at home or small spin shops but the Industrial revolution changed that by bringing house spinning and weaving to factories. With the mass production of textiles,

During the Medieval period, many technological advances were made. Some of the technology included watermills, windmills, the printing press, and advances in architecture such as the creation of castles and the Gothic style. Each invention had many different uses. The watermill used a water wheel or turbine that helped to make the process of grinding flour or fixing lumber, quicker and easier. The watermill was created during the early 7th century and noticeably spread throughout Europe a century later. There were two types of watermills, one was powered with a vertical waterwheel and the other was powered with a horizontal waterwheel. Watermills lived up to their name by using the power of water to mill and later became associated with

Textiles were machines that were ran by the power of water; they made fabric. Because of textiles it output a worker. Textiles started spreading a lot. Women would get paid two dollars a week and would get two meals a day. These machines replaced hand power tools and helped by making more, and it being cheaper. The bad thing about these machines though was that the machines created a lot of pollution . Thousands of people would work in these factories and would get paid good.

It reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with one worker able to work eight or more spools at a time. As technology improved this grew to 120. This invention greatly improved the speed and quality of cloth in the 1700’s. This made it possible for English people to get clothing cheaper and in less time.

Norma Rae is a true story set in a Southern mill-town in the summer of 1978. Norma Rae and the mill workers were victimized by the mill owners - low, unfair wages, and poor health conditions from the work in the textile mill. During this time Norma was fearful for her family's health and becomes aware of a labor organizer trying to bring the union to the mill. Norma decides to join forces with the union organizer, Reuben Warshosky. Management saw her as a threat and ordered her out of the mill, but not before she inspired the mill workers. It is greatt leadership that finally brings the mill workers together and they vote in and start a branch of the Textile Workers Union of America. The film is a real testament to the

distinct tasks and the assignment of different tasks to different workers for the purpose of