textile workers

"Tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world"--Provided by publisher.

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

Twelve-year-old Rosa and thirteen-year-old Jake form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Humorous illustrations describe the culture and traditions of Victorian England and what it would be like to be a workhouse boy in London in 1842.

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

"Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's 8arsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial"--OCLC.

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.

Presents an overview of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, a mill that dominated life in Manchester, New Hampshire from the early 1900s to 1936, and features the oral histories of laborers, foremen, managers, and town residents in which they discuss the influence of the mill on their lives.