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The Lowell mill girls / by Alice K. Flanagan.

by Flanagan, Alice K.

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Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2006.

Women textile workers -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Textile industry -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- Juvenile literature.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005002461.html

075651262X (lib. bdg.)

We the people (Series) (Compass Point Books)

48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm.

Becoming a mill girl -- How the Lowell mills began -- Job and educational opportunities -- Factory conditions -- How the mill girls made cloth -- Life in a boardinghouse -- Getting an education -- What became of the mill girls.

Discusses the history of the first mill in the United States to use machines to turn raw cotton into finished cloth, the women who worked in the mill, and how the innovations in the textile industry brought on the Industrial Revolution.

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