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The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of New England farmers, typically between the ages of 15 and 35. [ 1 ]
Resistance was led by the young women known as mill girls. With the mid-nineteenth-century growth in immigration and social changes post-Civil War, mill owners began to recruit immigrants, who often arrived with skills and were willing to work for lower wages. By mid-century, the Waltham-Lowell system proved unprofitable and collapsed.
Although most of the original Lowell mill girls were laid off and replaced by immigrants by 1850, the grown, single women who had been used to earning their own money ended up using their education to become librarians, teachers, and social workers. In this manner, the system was seen as producing "benefits for the workers and the larger society".
Lowell was a planned mill town. Under the Lowell System, the company recruited young women (15-35) from New England farms to work in the mills. The companies built boardinghouses managed by older women, often widows to provide meals and safe places to live.
In 1816, a second larger mill was built next to the first mill. In addition to producing cloth, it also produced textile machinery for other companies. The two mills were later connected in 1843, as part of a planned expansion. [7] The power loom was soon copied by many other New England area mills, and modified and perfected along the way.
The Lowell Offering was a monthly periodical collected contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female textile workers (young women [age 15–35] known as the Lowell Mill Girls) of the Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills of the early American Industrial Revolution. It began in 1840 and lasted until 1845.
In addition to the Yankees, Clara’s antagonist is Temperance, a mill girl who tells slanderous lies about Clara, even implicating her in a murder. ... “The Lost Women of Mill Street” (300 ...
Middlesex Horticultural Society [9] and Lowell Medical Association [16] founded. 1840 Hospital Association [6] and Lowell Museum established. Lowell Offering begins publication. [7] By now, Lowell mills had recruited over 8,000 Lowell mill girls. Population: 20,796. [11] 1841 Lowell Cemetery established. Vox Populi newspaper begins publication. [4]