Mind Amongst the Spindles: A Selection from the Lowell Offering by

Mind Amongst the Spindles: A Selection from the Lowell Offering

with Charles Knight

244 pages first pub 1844 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism history
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The textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, employed 8,000 workers by the 1840s, ninety percent of whom were women. These "mill girls" arrived in Lowell from farms all over New England and lived in...

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