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The Lowell Mill Girls (We the People: Industrial America)

by Alice K. Flanagan

Series:We the People: Industrial America, We the People (Industrial America)

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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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Alice K. Flanagan

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We the People: Industrial America

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Genre: Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 331.3 — Society, government, & culture Economics Labor economics Workers by age group
LCC: HD6073 .T42 .U535 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class Classes of labor
BISAC: JNF JUVENILE NONFICTION History United States 20th Century

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Published: 2005
Genre: Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 331.3
LCC: HD6073 .T42 .U535

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