The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

2024年4月8日 · In the late 19th century, women held nearly two-thirds of all textile jobs in Lowell, with many immigrant women joining Yankee mill girls in the textile industry. To find workers for their mills in early Lowell, the textile corporations recruited women from …

2021年5月23日 · The Lowell Mill Girls were young women employed in an innovative system of labor in textile mills centered in Lowell, Massachusetts during the early 19th century. Employing women in a factory was novel to the point of being revolutionary.

By 1840, the factories in Lowell employed at some estimates more than 8,000 textile workers, commonly known as mill girls or factory girls. These "operatives"—so-called because they operated the looms and other machinery—were primarily …

Eighty to 90 percent of the mill workers were women, and they came to be known as the Lowell Girls. Almost all were single and from rural or small-town families of modest means.

As much as the massive brick mills along the Merrimack, "mill girls" were an innovation of the early industrial revolution in New England. Lowell's mill workforce in the antebellum decades consisted largely of young single women from the farming communities of northern New England.

2023年9月19日 · They made sure the “mill girls,” America’s first factory laborers, went to sleep on time and to church on Sunday. This was life in a company town—the first planned company town in the United States. It wasn’t devised that way from the start, however.

Lowell solved the problem of labor by employing young women (usually single) between the ages of 15 and 35, who became known as "mill girls".

Working in the mills allowed the women, known as “mill girls,” to earn their own way without depending on their families, and to save money for their future marriages. Women going to work in factories created cultural change, and it was a controversial issue in the mid 1800s.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, farm girls and young women from throughout New England were recruited to work in the textile factories in Lowell, Massachusetts.