"Daughters of freemen still": female textile operatives and the changing face of Lowell, 1820-1850
This thesis investigates the female labor force of the Lowell textile mills from 1820 to 1850. First, it describes the development of the Lowell system and the philosophy on which it was founded. Next, it examines the working conditions in the mills and the daily lives of the women who worked in the...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41451 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03122009-040515/ |