women textile workers

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

Focuses on the lives of Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, and Sarah G. Bagley, who survived the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to become dynamic and ideal nineteenth-century women.

In 1841, Amanda travels north to New England. On the journey she encounters an explosion on the river boat, someone's stealing her identification for her grandfather, and the exploitation of women in textile mills.

When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.

Explores the importance of women workers in the nineteenth-century textile industry through a case study of the English firm, Samuel Courtaulds, looking at workers at home, at the factory, and in society, and discussing workers' resistance.

Essays and short stories provide a look at life in the factory for females who worked in the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass. in the 1840s.

Twenty women chronicle their experiences living in the mill towns of North Carolina.

Lilly Armbruster is forced to work for the powerful mill owners who caused her family's financial ruin, but her feelings of revenge become clouded when she discovers that her former fiance Matthew Cheever is working for those whom she despises.

Presents a history of the Lowell Textile Mills in Massachusetts, and describes how they began, the job and education opportunities for women, life in a boardinghouse, and more.