Middlesex
Middle School, Darien, CT 06820 |
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Labor Reform Movement
Web Sites |
Key People |
Databases (search for early labor reform, women labor, child labor or a key person) |
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Francis Cabot Lowell – American industrial pioneer. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/lowell_hi.html |
Sarah Bagley |
Student Reseach Center (EBSCO) |
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 |
Francis Cabot Lowell |
Student Resource Center (GALE) |
Information on the employment of women in textile mills and the labor movements that developed from their struggles |
Seth Luther |
Grolier Online |
Women and Unions – Early Efforts (contains links to additional information about Lowell “mill girls” |
Biography Resource Center (iCONN) |
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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. |
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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 |