Factory Girl

people know that the working conditions were not particularly great, not all factories were hard on the workers. In an excerpt from a letter written by a young girl working in a textile factory in Lowell, Massachusetts it is stated that she has sufficient food and a good place to sleep. Mary Paul clearly states, to her father, that she enjoys where she works. “I think that the factory is the best place for me and if any girl wants employment, I advise them to come to Lowell.” (Paul, 1846) She says she

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution played an integral role in the development of today’s world. Railroads were forming, factories were mass producing goods, medicines were being created, and communication was on the rise. Looking back on this time period, we can see how important all of these developments really were. Mechanization played a major role in the Industrial Revolution as people began to apply reason to manufacturing. Humans were flawed and such machinery

economy. Harsh factories were given a feminine, personal touch, and the women began to break out of their dull housewife lives--until the war ended. Although World War II caused only a temporary rise in women’s employment, women changed company policies and took jobs normally reserved for men, challenging their own role as subservient housewives and permanently improving employment in the businesses that they worked. While women made great changes during the war, women in factories were forced back

children on the job. Children were only paid only a fraction of what an adult would get, and sometimes factory owners would pay them

manufacturing processes during the time period of the 18th and 19th century. Prior to the industrial revolution manufacturing was done at people’s homes in rural locations. After the industrial revolution began jobs were moved from rural homes into city factories which resulted in a change in the volume and the variety of goods being produced, but also the people’s standard of living to change. ----------------------Before the start of the Industrial Revolution goods were typically made, processed and sold

Factory workers in the fashion industry are being treated unethically; many big clothing brands are employing women and children to do the work in those factories. Children throughout the world are being unfairly treated in the textile industry; this in turn is pulling the children out of school and forever ruining their chances of a good education and good jobs in the future and endangering them in these factories. Child labour is illegal yet it continues to happen in many countries around the world

place that said the owners of the factories must pay women a living wage, so textile companies started to recruit women farmworkers to leave the farm and come work in their factories. attempted to regulate the lives of their female workers by making them live by strict rule sets that dictated what they could or could not do throughout their day to day lives while working at the factories.

in Great Britain, factory worker’s rights were violated within the capitalist system. To begin with, workers in the factory were faced with many conditions that affected their health. According to Dr. Ward, a doctor for 30 years, stated that, “We could not remain ten minutes in the factory without gasping for breath.” “In many instances the muscles, and the skin is stripped down to the bone, and in some instances a finer or two might be lost.” Due to the bad state the factories were in, workers received

Lowell factories started to be made so the owners needed workers; the owners chose to use girls to work in the factories. Women got paid less during that time period so it would be cheaper for the owners. The women who worked in the mills were called mill girls, they were usually 15 to 35 years old. Mill girls worked 12 hours for 6 days a week, and lived in boarding houses. The textile corporations of Lowell paid higher wages than textile cities even though the work was difficult and tiring and that

"Last Thursday one girl fell down and broke her neck which caused instant death. She was going in or coming out of the mill and slipped down it being very icy" (Paul). This quote emphasizes the daily struggles that young children faced during the industrial revolution as far as looking out for their own well being. Children initially were involved in the work industry as a result of machines taking over thousands of men's jobs. Pictures of the factories sent very negative emotions to all who saw