“Lowell’s Mill Girls.”
Name: Jazmin D. Maten
Date: 12//2016
Subject: HIS 121
The Lowell Mill was founded and was located in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was built in a planned town to produce textiles named in honour of Francis Cabot Lowell in 1820. The Lowell factories employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. The age of the workers must be between fifteen to thirty-five. Offering $1.75- $3.00 dollars a week (which was the highest paying job opportunity for women during this time). The Boston Associates had been aware that this wasn’t enough to convince the “God -fearing” New England parents that they should permit their daughters to leave home to work in the mill. To be able to get the approval of these parents was by provided clean boardinghouse and strict moral supervision over all aspects of their lives. Agents and overseers of high moral character were selected; regulations were adopted at the mill and boarding houses, by which only respectable girl were employed. Most of these “mill girls” were primarily women and children from farming backgrounds. But despite Lowell Mill’s advertising, the cruel reality was that the days were long and the work was very difficult. Plus they weren’t getting paid enough in …show more content…
The owners refused to make any concessions or any changes to the work environment/pay. So in essence the “Lowell Mills” golden age ended in bitterness and resentment. Young women gradually began to turn away from the factory work Leaving the owners to find a new source of factory labor. They found the new source of factory labor within the flood of immigrants that were willing to work for low wages. Thus this was the end of the “Lowell’s Mill Girls.” But the girls did leave with one main idea that would slowly change history; it was the solid concept idea of
Name: Jazmin D. Maten
Date: 12//2016
Subject: HIS 121
The Lowell Mill was founded and was located in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was built in a planned town to produce textiles named in honour of Francis Cabot Lowell in 1820. The Lowell factories employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. The age of the workers must be between fifteen to thirty-five. Offering $1.75- $3.00 dollars a week (which was the highest paying job opportunity for women during this time). The Boston Associates had been aware that this wasn’t enough to convince the “God -fearing” New England parents that they should permit their daughters to leave home to work in the mill. To be able to get the approval of these parents was by provided clean boardinghouse and strict moral supervision over all aspects of their lives. Agents and overseers of high moral character were selected; regulations were adopted at the mill and boarding houses, by which only respectable girl were employed. Most of these “mill girls” were primarily women and children from farming backgrounds. But despite Lowell Mill’s advertising, the cruel reality was that the days were long and the work was very difficult. Plus they weren’t getting paid enough in …show more content…
The owners refused to make any concessions or any changes to the work environment/pay. So in essence the “Lowell Mills” golden age ended in bitterness and resentment. Young women gradually began to turn away from the factory work Leaving the owners to find a new source of factory labor. They found the new source of factory labor within the flood of immigrants that were willing to work for low wages. Thus this was the end of the “Lowell’s Mill Girls.” But the girls did leave with one main idea that would slowly change history; it was the solid concept idea of