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Lowell Mill Girls: Organized Labor and the First Strikes in America
Thursday, September 5 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | add to Google Calendar
This program will take place in person in the Yeager Community Room located on the lower level of the Library.
They were fed up and wouldn’t take the factory working conditions anymore, so the Lowell mill workers went on strike in 1834. The textile industry was the first to become mechanized and working conditions were harsh. Young women recruited off the farms worked 70 hours and six days a week. When wages were cut, the workers walked out. Learn about the Luddites—the machine-breakers who rejected the regimentation of the factory system and the working conditions of the early industrial era.
Presenter: Rick Feingold teaches American Business History at Bergen Community College and holds an MBA from Penn State University and a B.A.in History from Rutgers University.