factories

Rayk, a guide to the Near-Star Planets, a small solar system discovered by his father, takes Judge Clair and his lovely daughter Jan to visit factories on Glise, not realizing he has been lured to the planet by the leaders of the Thought Lab who need his help in their plans to control Near-Star.

A young girl and her older sister, working in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, an early twentieth-century sweatshop on the Lower East Side of New York City, join a protest to try to improve the miserable working conditions.

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Explains what factories are, looks at the various jobs that need to be done at a factory, and asks questions designed to help young readers decide whether they would like to work in a factory. Includes a glossary and resources for further research.

Angelina Petrosino dreams of getting an education, but her parents have insisted that she work full-time at the Sidowski sweatshop in New York City.

In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.