Situation of The Lowell Girls
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Description
This brief piece states that girls come from far and wide to work at the Lowell mills because the pay is better than they would make at home. The article contends that a girl can make only four dollars a month working in a family, a pittance compared to her earnings at the mill.
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Title
Situation of The Lowell Girls
Creator
Unsigned
Source
Dwight's American Magazine and Family Newspaper
Date
April 11, 1846
Subject
Wages--Women--United States
Publisher
Dwights American Magazine and Family Newspaper
Coverage
New York, New York
Citation
Unsigned , “Situation of The Lowell Girls ,” Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print, accessed July 20, 2018, http://americanantiquarian.org/millgirls/items/show/60.