The Mill Girls of Lowell

   While some of the young women were working in the mills for the factories they were provided with housing that usually had  around 5-10 sharing 1 small room. They would typically be working over 10-12 hours a day, working in un-safe environments. Despite their difficult conditions, the girls bonded with each other forming a nice community between themselves. 

     While these conditions have gotten worse the women protested wage cuts, and protection of their rights, through strikes and political actions. So a Labor Union was put into action giving them the opportunity to have protection and push for their rights if they felt like the interest of them working was horrible. 

   These women were that working in the factories would be good for them because they would be able to leave the house and work for themselves and earn their own money. Typically during the earlier years women were stationed at home taking care of the household by cooking, cleaning, taking care of the kids while the husbands would be out working and earning the money. So they were happy for a change just to only be treated bad for something that was not going to change, they had a window of opportunity of freedom in some way then their window was slammed shut by working in worse conditions then they probably would've been if they was working at home.