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| Children as young as six years old worked hard hours for little or no pay |
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| Child Labor www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html |
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| Children sometimes worked up to 19 hours a day with a total one hour break |
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| Child Labor www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html |
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| Large heavy and dangerous equipment was used, many accidents occurred injuring or killing children occurred on the job |
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| Child Labor www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html |
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| children were only paid a fraction of what an adult would get and sometimes factory owners would get away with paying them nothing |
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| Child Labor www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html |
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| orphans were the ones subject to slave like labor, the factory owners justified the absence of payroll by saying that they gave the orphans food, shelter, or clothing all of which were far below par |
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| Child Labor www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html |
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| Factory owners especially in steel and coal industries often would build company towns. workers were given cheap rent in these towns to go along with their wages, in essence, the worker was trapped, the company only afforded him a place to live and without the job he couldnt leave |
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| Hardships/Factory Life http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/USRA__Workers_Lives.htm |
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| The use of female factory workers brought advantages to both employer and employee. Boston associates preferred female labor because they paid young girls less than men. These female workers were called Lowell Girls |
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| Child Labor http://www.ushistory.org/us/22a.asp |
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| However, the chief organizational breakthrough of the Industrial Revolution where work was performed on a large scale in a single centralized location. Among the early innovators of this approach were a group of businessmen known as the Boston Associates who recruited thousands of New England farm girls to operate their machines in the new factories. |
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| Child Labor http://www.ushistory.org/us/22a.asp |
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| In 1821, Lowell, Massachusetts, was a village of five farm families. By 1836, it boasted more than 10,000 people. |
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| Hardships/Factory Life http://www.stowe.k12.vt.us/sms/.../IndustrialRevolutioninAmerica.doc> |
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| Visitors to Lowell described it as a model community composed of "small wooden houses, painted white, with green blinds, very neat, very snug, [and] very nicely carpeted." |
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| Hardships/Factory Life http://www.stowe.k12.vt.us/sms/.../IndustrialRevolutioninAmerica.doc> |
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| To work in their new mills, the company hired young women from nearby farms. The Lowell girls, as they came to be called, usually worked for a few years in the mills before returning home to marry. Most sent their wages home to their families. |
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| Hardships/Factory Life http://www.stowe.k12.vt.us/sms/.../IndustrialRevolutioninAmerica.doc> |
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| At first, parents hesitated to let their daughters work in the mills. To reassure parents, the company built boardinghouses. The company also made rules to protect the young women. |
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| Hardships/Factory Life http://www.stowe.k12.vt.us/sms/.../IndustrialRevolutioninAmerica.doc> |
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| Although factory work was often tedious and hard, many women valued the economic freedom they got from working in the mills. |
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| Hardships/Factory Life http://www.stowe.k12.vt.us/sms/.../IndustrialRevolutioninAmerica.doc> |
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