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Title:
The Lowell mill girls
ISBN:
9780756512620
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2006.
Physical Description:
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Becoming a mill girl -- How the Lowell mills began -- Job and educational opportunities -- Factory conditions -- How the mill girls made cloth -- Life in a boardinghouse -- Getting an education -- What became of the mill girls.
Reading Level:
1000 L Lexile
Summary:
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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