	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