Resources

• "The Time Table of the Lowell Mills, 1864."
  
  
• Factory Girl's Garland, a mill workers' newspaper in Exeter, NH on May 25, 1844.
  
  
• The Factory Bell by an Unknown Factory Girl, 1844. (This poem first appeared on May 25, 1844 in the Factory Girl's Garland)
  
  
• "A Description of Factory Life in 1846 by an Associationist." 
  
  
• "Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848"  
  
  
• "The Boardinghouse System" 
  
  
• "Boarding House Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848" 
  
  
• "The Spirit of Discontent"  (fiction from The Lowell Offering  ca 1840). 
  
  
• "The Lowell Mill Girls Go on Strike, 1836” by Harriet Hanson Robinson  (excerpt from Robinson's book Loom and Spindle, a memoir of her Lowell experiences, where she recounted the strike of 1836.  (New York, T.Y. Cowell, 1898, p.83-86)  
  
  
• Lowell Factory Girls Association - Constitution 1836 (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
  
  
• "We Call On You to Deliver Us From the Tyrant's Chain": Lowell Women Workers Campaign for a Ten-Hour Workday.
  
  
• "Texts About Lowell Mill Girls" 
  
  
• "Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature" 
  
  

• Recording of the song “I Cannot Be A Slave:”

  Performed by:
               Susan Levine  (Vocals)
               Tom Eaton   (Piano)
         Produced and Recorded by Tom Eaton at Thomas Eaton Recording,
         Newburyport, MA