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Lesson-7 How did the factory system impact the lives of men,
women, and children?
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Introduction:
Tasks -
1. Complete a graphic organizer on the advantages and disadvantages of factory
work in the early 19th century.
2. Write a newspaper report of a visit to a factory
3. Write an advertisement for factory workers.
4. Write an letter home to your parents describing how you feel having left the
farm and your first week of work at the factory.
5. Keep a record of your activities for one week which details jobs (paid work
or household chores)
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Possible Documents
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Format |
Subject |
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Going off to work in
mills / Mill works descriptions |
| Doc 14 Experiences
of Lowell Mill girls |
text |
Among Lowell Mill Girls: A Reminiscence. [The
Atlantic monthly. / Volume 48, Issue 289, November 1881] From
the Library of Congress |
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Doc 10 Delinquents from the New
York House of Refuge indentured as apprentices |
text |
Contrast to factory work, continuation of
indentures |
| Doc 15 A young girl is
sent to the mills |
text |
11 yr old maturely goes off to work in mills
for the sake of family finances |
| Doc 19 Sally Rice Leaves the Farm” |
text |
by Sally Rice, 1838 .
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5789/ |
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Images from Lowell Mills |
images |
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Doc 24 Seamstress at machine |
daguerreotype |
1850 middle class woman on factory machine |
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Doc 25 Mule Spinning |
image |
interior of mill ( need to date this) |
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Doc 26 Carding |
image |
interior of mill ( need to date this) |
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Doc 27
The Process for Making Cans in the Packing of Meats
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image |
(need to date this) |
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Mills are positive impact
on family |
| Doc 1 Working in Shoe
factory |
text |
British visitor describes a
working girl's paradise |
| Doc 2 George Washington
Visits a Factory |
text |
working girls saved from poor families to work
in factory |
| Doc 7
Newspaper in favor of child labor |
text |
blessing to the family and neighborhood |
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Doc 9 Children's factory work "redeems" poor man and his
family |
text |
(Needs to be edited
down) |
| Doc 8
Letter to the editor in support of child mill work |
text |
more productive than farm labor |
| Doc 18 Harriet Martineau describes a mill |
text |
good situation for workers and finances |
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Mills are negative impact
on family |
| Doc 3 Josiah Quincy
describes children working in the factories. |
text |
early negative view of child labor |
| Doc 11 Working Girls in
NYC Umbrella factory |
text |
conditions |
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Doc 20
Campaign for a Ten-Hour Workday”
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text |
“We Call On You to Deliver Us From the Tyrant’s Chain:
Lowell Women Workers, circa 1845 .http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6217/ |
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Doc 21 "Factories
are talked about as schools of vice: |
text |
Elias Nason Considers Careers"
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5831/ |
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Doc 23
Bertha the sewing machine girl; or, Death at the wheel! |
image and story |
dangers of the workplace - predatory man! |
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Mills work ads / data /
pay scales / organization / laws |
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Good Description and financial accounts of families
working in mills |
text |
Needs to be extracted from a longer account - turned into graph or
table? |
| Doc 4 Advertisement for
child workers, eight to twelve years old, 1808 |
text |
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| Doc 5 Family pay in Slater
mills |
text |
Shows rates of pay and employment of entire
families |
| Doc 6 Newspaper ads for
family mill work |
text |
Shows encouragement to hire entire family |
| Doc 12
Lowell timetable |
graphic |
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| Doc 13 Lowell mill manufacturing
statistics |
graphic |
1835
| 1846 |
| Doc 16 1848 Pennsylvania
labor Law |
text |
Child Labor Law |
| Doc 17
The Superintendent at the Lowell Mills |
text |
total control |
| Doc 22 Manager's daily log 1829. |
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http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5792/
another version
http://www.osv.org/learning/DocumentViewer.php?DocID=134 |
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Mine work |
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Doc 28 Child in push cart in mines |
Image |
no date |
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Doc 29 Mining on the Comstock |
lithograph |
Cut away image of the Comstock Mines |
| Doc 30 Removing the Dead
Miners |
lithograph |
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from NEH Edsitement
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Was There an Industrial Revolution? New Workplace, New Technology, New
Consumers
In this lesson, students explore the First Industrial Revolution in early
nineteenth-century America. Through simulation activities and the
examination of primary historical materials, students learn how changes in
the workplace and less expensive goods led to the transformation of American
life. |
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Was There an Industrial Revolution?
Americans at Work Before the Civil War
In this lesson, students explore the First Industrial Revolution in early
nineteenth-century
America. By
reading and comparing first-hand accounts of the lives of workers before the
Civil War, students prepare for a series of guided role-playing activities
designed to help them make an informed judgement as to whether the changes
that took place in manufacturing and distribution during this period are
best described as a 'revolution' or as a steady evolution over time. |
Lowell Mill Girls - Women's Factory Work and Organizing
... Lowell Mills Girls Harriet Hanson
Robinson writes of her experience as
one of the factory workers in the Lowell textile mills, 1832-1848.
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