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In 1836, the Lowell Mill Girls organized another strike, or "turn out" as they called them. The first strike had been in 1834 over a 15% cut in wages. The second strike was over an increase in board charges that was equivalent to a 12.5% cut in wages. To Harriet, who was eleven, it was her first "turn out."
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 ]
In 1834, the mills cut wages by 25%, which led the girls to respond by staging an unsuccessful strike and organizing a labor union called the Factory Girls Association. In 1836, they went on another unsuccessful strike when their housing rates were increased.
Lucy Larcom, who worked in mills in the mid-1800s, wrote the thrum of the mill made her head ache, and some weavers became deaf after long-term exposure to the machinery's noise.
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.
Lowell, Massachusetts Mill Women's Strike. [6] 1834 (United States) Manayunk, Pennsylvania Textile Strike. [6] 1835 (United States) Carpenters, masons, and stone-cutters began a strike as part of the Ten-Hour Movement among skilled workers. [6] They drafted a strike circular in Boston outlining their demands and seeking assistance from other ...
The cause of death of Philadelphia school teacher Ellen Greenberg, who was found brutally stabbed in 2011, will be reinvestigated after a pathologist who previously ruled her death a suicide ...
Eliza Jane Cate was born in 1812 in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. [3] Her father was a carpenter, mason, and fought in the War of 1812. [4] She went to work in cotton mills in Manchester, New Hampshire and Lowell, Massachusetts. [5]