Describes the working conditions experienced by women laborers in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, with first-hand accounts, photographs, journal entries

Discusses the history of the first mill in the United States to use machines to turn raw cotton into finished cloth, the women who worked in the mill, and how t

Collection of essays and historical fiction that presents different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female workers in the 1840's.

Collection of essays and historical fiction that presents different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female workers in the 1840's.

In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor