Factory Girl

As the American Industrial Revolution began in the first half of the 19th century, girls as young as five left their farm homes to find work, personal independence and adventure. There were good jobs in New England mills. The mill girls of Lowell, MA, became an integral part of the social and economic changes underway. They helped shape mill rules, protested actively for fair wages, improved working conditions and secured shorter hours. They helped establish women's employment possibilities. Their

production of goods, increase of trade, and better financial opportunities. However due to a ready workforce, this showed a positive impact on businesses and society. For example in document 1 a 16 year-old girl, Mary Paul, explains how Lowell is the best place of her, and that “if any girl wants employment, I advise them to come to Lowell”. I perceive from this statement the she was very happy to work there, therefore it must be a good working environment, which means that the company must prosper

Juan Lopez Mr. Shrank ELA/ELD 18 April 2018 Cotton gin and lowell mill girls Before the machines were invented there were only women to do the job. Let's suppose that a woman could make one skirt a day before the invention and after the change in technology she could make 50. The good part of the lowell mill girls was that it could make hundreds a day. But the bad part of technology was that the workers did not have a job and the workers would not have enough money to buy food for their family

working in factories were severely impacted socially and economically during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Young women were found to dominate the silk and textile factories, however, they did not receive the same pay as men. The chart referencing gender and age of silk factory workers in five English Towns in 1833 reveals that 63 to 96% of the workers were female, which of those were 35 to 53% under the age of 16. (Document A). The chart referencing gender and age of silk factories in Nagano

In the 19th century, women would work in the Lowell mills and were called Lowell Girls. For the time period, it was very beneficial for young women to work at these mills. They were able to do things that they couldn’t do at home. There were advantages and disadvantages for the girls to be working in the factory. There were many advantages of being a Lowell Girl. A Lowell Girl was paid in wages and these women would work and send their money back to their families. They would live in dorms while

The mill factories of the early 19th century are quite different from what we know and perceive to be factory work today. One might be surprised initially that a girl would want to go to the mills given the current perception of them, but in this time the mills were quite attractive initially for many women. Mary Paul initially tried to find work as a domestic for a farming family but after that failed, she moved to the mills in Lowell looking for work (Dublin 121). Most women in the early 19th century

Industrialization is one of the many reasons as to why working in factories was not an ideal job to have in any part of the world. Although the mill workers of Japan and England experienced different types of work or events, their experiences were more similar than different because the amount of time and payment that they were receiving, their working conditions were both terrible, and the way that society viewed them were mostly the same. The mill workers are more similar because the amount of

be very hard and long. Working conditions in the factories were very hard because they had to work 12-16 hours, 6 days a week of nothing but straight work in the blazing heat. If you were late to work your wage would decrease even more. They didn’t get frequent breaks, they had to find a time to eat while they were working. There were some days they wouldn’t eat or drink anything all day because they had to constantly be working. Working in a factory was not flexible with schedules, so most of the

Child workers in factories Children were viewed as a dispensable source of labour during the Industrial Revolution. Evidence of this is that they were given potentially dangerous jobs, worked to the point of exhaustion and harshly punished for their actions. Children were viewed as dispensable because they were given potentially dangerous jobs. The jobs that children were made to do in factories and mines were often in tight enclosed spaces or close to dangerous heavy machinery. Evidence of this

innovative period for entrepreneurs and inventors, in which many monumental technologies were introduced. However, many of those of the factory workers suffered from the social and economic conditions that resulted from the revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some social conditions were that working women increasingly took up the workforce in textile factories as a way to earn money, but they also faced abuse from men and the harsh working conditions. Furthermore, manufacturers wanted to increase