Young Unmarried Women Begin to Flock to the Mills to Work
What Was Life Like for These Young Girls?
- Read The Mill Girls
- Lucy Larcom writes about working in the mills
- Harriet Robinson writes about her experiences in the mills
- The Life of the Mill Girls (read through this play to learn about their daily lives)
- The Bell Schedule
- A Second Peep at Factory Life
- A Week in the Mill
- Print Selection from The Lowell Offering, 1844 (This journal was published by about 70 women who worked in the mills.)
Rules to Follow
- Boarding House Rules
- Boarding House Regulations
- Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1845
Thing Are Not Always Pleasant for The Workers
Things could be rough for the mill girls. They were not always happy about the working conditions. They even got together to strike. Read about these conditions and their organized strikes.
- Massachusetts Investigation into Labor Conditions
- The Mill Girls (Read the section - "Voices of Protest")
- Letters of Mary S. Paul, Factory Worker
- Turnout in Lowell
- Investigation of Labor Conditions, 1845
- Working Conditions
- Working Conditions and Factory Rules
- 1834 Lowell Mill Girls "Turnout" to Protest Wage Cuts
- An Account of a Visitor to Lowell, 1836
- The Lowell Mill Girls and the Rhetoric of Women's Labor Unrest
- Labor Events - Lowell Mill Women Create First Union of Working Women