Conclusion

You have examined the lives of girls and women in Lowell, Massachusetts as they went from the farms to the manufacturing mills. You have seen how conditions changed in the country in the 1830’s and how the Industrial Revolution created a new class of work. The women who worked at the mills wanted safer, better conditions. They wanted shorter hours and a good wage. They began to see workers from other countries coming to work in the mills. This period was the beginning of labor movements that grew over the years until finally there was a ten-hour day, and eventually an eight-hour day.