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What was it like for the operatives (people who operated the machines) in Lowell’s textile mills? Every worker had a different experience. While earning cash wages for long hours, some workers found ...
Young women from all over New England started coming to Lowell in the late 1820s to work in the textile factories. Known as “mill girls,” these women operated machines in the mills, lived in company ...
After a long economic slump, the post-industrial New England city is encouraging development, filling vacant properties and ...
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