Lowell Mill Girls
The "Mill Girls" were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of propertied New England farmers, between the ages of 15 and 30. (There also could be "little girls" who worked there about the age of 13.) By 1840, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, the textile mills had recruited over 8,000 women, who came to make up nearly seventy-five percent of the mill workforce.
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Lowell Mill Girls
The "Mill Girls" were female workers who came to work for the textile corporations in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the Industrial Revolution in the United States. The workers initially recruited by the corporations were daughters of propertied New England farmers, between the ages of 15 and 30. (There also could be "little girls" who worked there about the age of 13.) By 1840, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, the textile mills had recruited over 8,000 women, who came to make up nearly seventy-five percent of the mill workforce.
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Lowell Mill Girls est le nom q ...... par les ouvrières elles-mêmes.
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The "Mill Girls" were female w ...... picture of life in the mills.
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Lowell Mill Girls est le nom q ...... e femmes âgées de 16 à 35 ans.
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The "Mill Girls" were female w ...... percent of the mill workforce.
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