The Waltham-Lowell System was a labor and production model employed in New England in the early 19th Century. This was the first time all stages of textile production were completed in one location outside of the home.
They received high wages between 2 and 4 dollars a week, so they stayed. hope this helps :-)
In the beginning Lowell Girls entered the work force of their own volition. They used the income to pay for their brothers to go to college, to support themselves while getting an education, or just to earn extra money for themselves. As the Industrial Revolution progressed, this became the only choice for women to make any money. They were suppressed under harsh working conditions with no options for bettering their lives.
Because the Lowell girls made up almost 75% of the workers in textile mills, many of the women joined the American labor movement in protest of the conditions of the factories they were working in. The Lowell Female Labor Reform Association was formed as the first female union for workers during the industrial revolution. These women were crucial in forming strikes to get rights for women working in mills and factories at this time.
In the United States, the first textile mill was established by Francis Cabot Lowell. Lowell visited England in the early 1800s, and toured textile mills while pretending to be an idiot. When he returned to the United States, he gave detailed descriptions and engineering drawings to a man named Paul Moody, creating spinning devices and a power loom. In order to raise the money for the mill, Lowell sold shares of stock in his company, an innovative approach at the time that later became the primary way capital is raised for corporations. The textile mill itself became the basis for the town of Lowell, Massachussetts, named for Francis Cabot Lowell. Lowell employed many women in his mills, which was also innovative at the time. He was able to pay women less than men, but women also benefited from the small measure of independence and camaraderie with other women.
No, they lived in boarding houses close to the factories.
Lowell Girls The Lowell Girls are girls who worked in the mills in the 18th century Industrial Revolution. They lived in boarding homes that were often crowded and had a little privacy but was still nice. Most Lowell Girls worked to help pay their brothers for education.
Lowell Facts:The factory owners relied on Lowell girls to work for them (the Lowell girls were nearby farm girls)The Lowell girls relied on factory owners to give them jobsthey lived in town near their job with "___mothers"(i cant think of the ___ name -sorry)they sent the money home to their familythe conditions weren't so bad
Farm Girls
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Up to 20 girls were living in the Lowell boarding houses......
they conducted them to make money
they lived in company-owned boardinghouses.
The Lowell girls didn't intend on getting famous but by fighting for their rights to get better working conditions that showed the courage of women and that's what people loved about them and that is how they were known.
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Most of the Lowell Mill Girls were between the ages of 15 to 35 years old. Many of them were young women in their late teens or early twenties.
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