because they didn't do what they were asked to do
Owners could pay women and children less than they paid men.
The Merimack River,mill owners dammed it.
Women were paid cheaper than men were. Children had small hands, so if there was a problem in the machinery they could easily fix it. Many children died because of this, some of these tasks ended up taking off their hands or even hairs and sometimes even scalped them.
Woman could be paid less because they were thought to be inferior men. Children could be paid even less and could be worked for as long as the factory wanted. Plus children had nimbler fingers and could crawl into machines to fix them.
If they hire them.
they fired the girls
Factory owners in the Industrial Revolution wanted to hire women because they could pay them lower wages than men.
1903
Mill owners moved their factories to the South in the 1920s due to available labor. During the same period, a lot of blacks were migrating North in search of work.
to punish
Owners of a Foley Food Mill can find tips on how to use their machine by going to their website. There are also a large amount of blogs and discussion boards online that offer tips to owners.
The cast of Children for Hire - 1994 includes: Cedric Smith as Narrator