Lowell Mills

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Lowell Mills

• Francis Cabot Lowell
• Eastern Mass.

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Lowell Mills

• Create factory town w/o dysfunction or dirt.
  (Waltham System)
• Hired young farm women monitored their lives

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Impact of Factory Work on Lowell Girls

• Taste independence
• Taste of consumer goods
• Early roots of womens rights movement

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Fate of Lowell

• Women strike
• Replaced w/ immigrants
• Becomes a dirty factory town