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Ellen Johnston known as "The Factory Girl" (c.1835 – April 12, 1874) was a Scottish power-loom weaver and poet. She is known because of her autobiography and later reevaluations of her working class poetry.
The Factory Girls is a play by Frank McGuinness. The play is about five women whose jobs at a County Donegal, Ireland, shirt factory are under threat. It features only two male characters, and these only appear in two scenes. [1] [2] The Factory Girls was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1982 and was the play that brought McGuinness to ...
The mill girls lived in company boarding houses and were subject to strict codes of conduct and supervised by older women. They worked about 80 hours a week. Six days per week, they woke to the factory bell at 4:40 a.m. and reported to work at 5 before a half-hour breakfast break at 7. They worked until a lunch break of 30 to 45 minutes around ...
In an account of the Lowell mill girls, Harriet Hanson Robinson wrote that generously high wages were offered to overcome the degrading nature of the work: At the time the Lowell cotton mills were started the caste of the factory girl was the lowest among the employments of women. ...
Bessie Van Vorst (née McGinnis; September 2, 1873 – May 19, 1928), also known as Mrs. John Van Vorst, was an American author and journalist.She is best known as a co-author of the magazine series and the book The Woman Who Toils: Being the Experiences of Two Ladies as Factory Girls (1903) with a preface by US President Theodore Roosevelt, an influential example of social investigation.
Sarah George Bagley (April 19, 1806 [1] [dubious – discuss] – January 15, 1889) was an American labor leader in New England during the 1840s; an advocate of shorter workdays for factory operatives and mechanics, she campaigned to make ten hours of labor per day the maximum in Massachusetts.
Discontent within the factory workforce lead to strikes in the UK in the lead up to January 1943. [4] According to the social research organisation Mass-Observation, women working in war production considered their abilities to be under used, [5] and that potential employees perceived factory girls to be "low class, rough, dirty and immoral". [6]
There were high literacy rates among the young female workers of the Lowell mills, and many, like Harriet Farley, had been schoolteachers before entering factory work. [1] It was common for these women to form writing groups, and out of one of these grew a magazine called The Lowell Offering in 1840.