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 t

In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor

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

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