Living as women in the 19th century was extremely different then living as women now. Female textile workers of Lowell Massachusetts in the 19th century were forced to work in poor working areas where they were underpaid and over used in order to try and make a daily living for their families. One might characterize working as a female textile worker in the 19th century as a blessing, or one might characterize it as a curse. If I was a 19th century female textile worker in 1840, I would characterize the labors as both. Although they faced long hours of hard work and labor and worked in grueling conditions, many female textile workers remained an important part of the textile workforce for years because of their hard work and dedication, and held nearly two-thirds of all textile jobs in Lowell.
The female textile workers of Lowell were housed in company boarding houses. More than half of the women were employed by the Hamilton Company where they lived in boarding houses that......
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