Middlesex Middle School, Darien, CT 06820
 

Labor Reform Movement

 
Web Sites
Databases (search for early labor reform, women labor, child labor or a key person)

Public Broadcasting Service
Francis Cabot Lowell – American industrial pioneer. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/lowell_hi.html

Student Reseach Center (EBSCO)

University of Albany
Seth Luther – Early labor reformer instrumental in passing child labor law in Massachusetts. Excerpts from some of his pamphlets http://www.albany.edu/history/history316/SethLuther.html

Student Resource Center (GALE)

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Information on the employment of women in textile mills and the labor movements that developed from their struggles
http://historynow.org/12_2006/historian4.html

Grolier Online

University of Massachusetts Lowell
Center For Lowell History – University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries – Mill life in Lowell (1820 – 1880) including links to pictures and images of original documents and newspapers. There is also a link to an interactive game to make some of the choices a girl would make when first coming to work in a mill.
http://library.uml.edu/clh/mo.htm

Biography Resource Center (iCONN)

University of Iowa
Child labor in U.S. history – Timeline of important events related to child labor: http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html

 
Key People
Sarah Bagley
Francis Cabot Lowell
Seth Luther