The Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls

INTRODUCTION. WHENEVER the history of economic conditions in this country shall be written, the author will express his gratitude for all works giving the details of especial epochs and phases of industrial life. Among them he will find no more interesting experience than that attending the entrance of women to the industrial field. The author…

CHAPTER I.LOWELL SIXTY YEARS AGO. “That wonderful city of spindles and looms, And thousands of factory folk.” The life of a people or of a class is best illustrated by its domestic scenes, or by character sketches of the men and women who form a part of it. The historian is a species of mental…

CHAPTER VII A GENERAL ELECTION — WE OPPOSE MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL — WE INTERVIEW MR BALFOUR — I LEAVE MANCHESTER TO ROUSE LONDON WITH £2 — I MEET MR. W. T. STEAD Fortunately for the new Militant Party, there was a prospective Cabinet Minister who chose as his constituency North-West Manchester. To us the whole…

Chapter VIIIBrief Biographies of Some of the Writers for the Lowell Offering It remains for me to give, so far as I have been able to glean them, the life-stories of a few of the most important of these mill-girl writers, some of them brief indeed, others perhaps of wider significance, but all telling a…