What was it like to be a girl working at the Lowell Mills in the 1830s? Would you have taken this job? Why? What are textile mills like today–and where are they located? What kind of workers are hired to work in textile mills today?

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Harriet H. Robinson Remembers a Mill Workers’ Strike, 1836

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What was it like to be a girl working at the Lowell Mills in the 1830s? Would you have taken this job? Why? What are textile mills like today–and where are they located? What kind of workers are hired to work in textile mills today?