6_02factoryworkers

Life In The Factory

What comes to mind when you think of a factory worker? Factory workers worked 73 hours per week. Fast day, Thanksgiving day, Fourth of July, and Christmas day are the only days they were off. In the factory there was looms like devices for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread. The devices in the factory sometimes injured the workers. The atmosphere in the rooms had cotton filament and dust which is harmful to the lungs and the windows were never up because the thread didn't work good when the wind blew so the workers were working in heat. Working in Lowell Mills factory  gave women independence and girl friendship. They worked long hours for low pay, with work and a noisy area made hard working conditions. Bad health is the shortness of time allowed for meals and the question of how long employment. Because of competition from textile factories and working conditions becaming worst and pay declined for women by 1830s caused many women to leave the factory system.

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