Mill Girls and Strangers
Mill Girls and Strangers

Author: Wendy M. Gordon

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0791487822

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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.

The Lowell Mill Girls
The Lowell Mill Girls

Author: Alice K. Flanagan

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2005-09

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780756512620

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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 Mill Girls
The Mill Girls

Author: Tracy Johnson

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2014-07-03

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0091958288

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True stories of love, laughter and loss from inside Lancashire's cotton mills. With tales from reluctant Audrey and mischievous Maureen to high-spirited Doris and dedicated Marjorie, The Mill Girls is an evocative story of hardship and friendship when cotton was still king. Through the eyes of four northern mill girls, we are offered a fascinating glimpse into the lives of ordinary women who rallied together, nattered over the beamers and, despite the hard working conditions, weaved, packed and laughed to keep the cotton mills spinning. The Mill Girls is a moving story of an era long gone and provides a captivating insight into a lost way of life.

The Mill Girls
The Mill Girls

Author: Bernice Selden

Publisher: Atheneum Books

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Focuses on the lives of Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, and Sarah G. Bagley, who survived the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to become dynamic and ideal nineteenth-century women.

Lowell Offering
Lowell Offering

Author: Benita Eisler

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780393316858

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Gathers letters, stories, and essays written by the female employees of the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts.

A History of American Working-Class Literature
A History of American Working-Class Literature

Author: Nicholas Coles

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108509029

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A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.

The Bobbin Girl
The Bobbin Girl

Author: Emily Arnold McCully

Publisher: Dial Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?

Mill Girls of Lowell
Mill Girls of Lowell

Author: Jeff Levinson

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Describes the working conditions experienced by women laborers in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, with first-hand accounts, photographs, journal entries, and more.