Author : Alice K. Flanagan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780756512620
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 the innovations in the textile industry brought on the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Jeff Levinson
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Describes the working conditions experienced by women laborers in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, with first-hand accounts, photographs, journal entries, and more.
Author : Alice K. Flanagan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2005-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756517311
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 the innovations in the textile industry brought on the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Wendy M. Gordon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791487822
In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, and separation from family. Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy.
Author : Benita Eisler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393316858
Gathers letters, stories, and essays written by the female employees of the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 1840
Category : Christian socialism
ISBN :
Author : C. S. Malerich
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250756553
C. S. Malerich's The Factory Witches of Lowell is a riveting historical fantasy about witches going on strike in the historical mill-town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Faced with abominable working conditions, unsympathetic owners, and hard-hearted managers, the mill girls of Lowell have had enough. They're going on strike, and they have a secret weapon on their side: a little witchcraft to ensure that no one leaves the picket line. For the young women of Lowell, Massachusetts, freedom means fair wages for fair work, decent room and board, and a chance to escape the cotton mills before lint stops up their lungs. When the Boston owners decide to raise the workers’ rent, the girls go on strike. Their ringleader is Judith Whittier, a newcomer to Lowell but not to class warfare. Judith has already seen one strike fold and she doesn’t intend to see it again. Fortunately Hannah, her best friend in the boardinghouse—and maybe first love?—has a gift for the dying art of witchcraft. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Nicholas Coles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108509029
A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.
Author : Lucy Larcom
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory by Lucy Larcom, first published in 1889, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Dial Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
