lowell (mass.)

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

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.

Presents a study of the lives of a group of men, known as the Boston Associates, who prospered as merchants at the start of the nineteenth century and later invested heavily in the American textile industry.

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.