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Lowell factory girls faced conditions that, while not slavery in the legal sense, bore similarities in their lack of autonomy and harsh labor environments. They worked long hours for low wages in often dangerous conditions, with strict oversight from factory management. Many were young women who had limited options for employment and faced societal pressures, making their economic dependence akin to servitude. Furthermore, the system exploited their labor while offering little in terms of rights or protections, reflecting a form of economic oppression.
The Lowell system was a labor model used in New England at the start of the industrial revolution. It centralized all the production of cotton into one building to increase control on the quality of the product. This system however proved to be unable to keep up with the cotton industry and was later deemed unprofitable
European nations practiced a mercantilistic system in latin America
The rapid growth of cities.
The South had its one big commodity, cotton, which needed massed field-hands who had no need of skills or qualifications. It was suited to slavery. The North depended heavily on the factory system, which could not use many unskilled hands, but needed skilled, qualified, mobile labour. For that reason, slavery had died out in the North.
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Francis Cabot Lowell's mill.
Steam power helped launch European industrialization, while the factory system contributed to the growth of later industrialization.
Steam power helped launch European industrialization, while the factory system contributed to the growth of later industrialization.
Steam power helped launch European industrialization, while the factory system contributed to the growth of later industrialization.
Steam power helped launch European industrialization, while the factory system contributed to the growth of later industrialization.
Bringing others' ideas and making them better! Francis Cabot Lowell brought the idea for the factory system from what he observed in Great Britain. Likewise, Samuel Slater memorized the design of the machines used for spinning cotton threads in Great Britain. They both brought these ideas to America and made a huge impact on the Industrial Revolution.
Francis Cabot Lowell invented the first factory system. Many mills and factories were built along the Merrimack River by the Boston Manufacturing Company.