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Author Flanagan, Alice K.

Title The Lowell mill girls / by Alice K. Flanagan.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, [2006]
©2006
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 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J 331.3 FLANAGAN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 331.3 FLA    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Children's Department  J 331.387 FLA    Check Shelf
Description 48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
Series We the people
We the people (Series) (Compass Point Books)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.
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.
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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.2 1.0 101420.
Subject Women textile workers -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Women textile workers.
Textile industry -- Massachusetts -- Lowell.
ISBN 075651262X hardcover
Standard No. 9780756512620
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