Author: Alice K. Flanagan
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756517311
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses the history of the first mill in the United States to use machines to turn raw cotton into finished cloth, the women who worked in the mill, and how the innovations in the textile industry brought on the Industrial Revolution.
The Lowell Mill Girls
Author: Alice K. Flanagan
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756512620
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses the history of the first mill in the United States to use machines to turn raw cotton into finished cloth, the women who worked in the mill, and how the innovations in the textile industry brought on the Industrial Revolution.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756512620
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses the history of the first mill in the United States to use machines to turn raw cotton into finished cloth, the women who worked in the mill, and how the innovations in the textile industry brought on the Industrial Revolution.
Mill Girls and Strangers
Author: Wendy M. Gordon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791487822
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, and separation from family. Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791487822
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they played in the cities to which they moved, and the dangers they met as a result of their youth, gender, and separation from family. Gordon details both the similarities and differences in the women's migration experiences, and somewhat surprisingly concludes that they became financially independent, rather than primarily contributors to a family economy.
Brownson's Defence
Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Lowell Mill Girls
Author: JoAnne B. Weisman
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780785774372
Category : Lowell (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) - History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collection of essays and historical fiction that presents different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female workers in the 1840's.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780785774372
Category : Lowell (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) - History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collection of essays and historical fiction that presents different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female workers in the 1840's.
The Lowell Mill Girls
Author: Alice K. Flanagan
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756517311
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses the history of the first mill in the United States to use machines to turn raw cotton into finished cloth, the women who worked in the mill, and how the innovations in the textile industry brought on the Industrial Revolution.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756517311
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Discusses the history of the first mill in the United States to use machines to turn raw cotton into finished cloth, the women who worked in the mill, and how the innovations in the textile industry brought on the Industrial Revolution.
Mill Girls of Lowell
Author: Jeff Levinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Describes the working conditions experienced by women laborers in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, with first-hand accounts, photographs, journal entries, and more.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Describes the working conditions experienced by women laborers in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, with first-hand accounts, photographs, journal entries, and more.
The Lowell Mill Girls
Author: JoAnne Weisman Deitch
Publisher: Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA)
ISBN: 9781579600419
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A collection of essays and historical fiction presents different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female operatives in the 1840s.
Publisher: Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA)
ISBN: 9781579600419
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A collection of essays and historical fiction presents different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female operatives in the 1840s.
The Lowell Mill Girls
Author: JoAnne B. Weisman
Publisher: Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA)
ISBN: 9781878668066
Category : Textile workers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Collection of essays and historical fiction that presents different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female workers in the 1840's.
Publisher: Discovery Enterprises, Limited (MA)
ISBN: 9781878668066
Category : Textile workers
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Collection of essays and historical fiction that presents different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female workers in the 1840's.
Lowell Offering
Author: Benita Eisler
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393316858
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Gathers letters, stories, and essays written by the female employees of the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393316858
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Gathers letters, stories, and essays written by the female employees of the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts.
The People Speak
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061847321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Collected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent. To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn drew on the words of Americans—some famous, some little known—across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin, Andre Gregory, and others. From that celebration, this book was born. Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061847321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Collected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent. To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn drew on the words of Americans—some famous, some little known—across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin, Andre Gregory, and others. From that celebration, this book was born. Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.