mill girl

And she used such language as I would not expect from the mouth of the lowest mill girl.

As a mill girl she hoped to earn some extra money for her family.

"But mill girls are cheap, and might be trained," I said.

Eventually, cheaper and less organized foreign labor replaced the mill girls.

They all come to see how the mills began, the quilt museum, the mill girls."

"You are a mill girl now, Tiffany," he said.

Mill girls, some as young as ten, were paid less than men, but received a fixed wage for their 73 hour week.

They kinda skip over the parts about the mill girls losing hands and fingers in the machinery, but what the hell.

Margaret Sanger lectured striking mill girls on the importance of family planning.

Ten copper tarsks, he assured me, was a good price for a mill girl.

You are a low slave, a mill girl."

The young Yankee women, or "mill girls," lived in company boarding houses and attended churches supported by the companies.

"Able to cope with ghosts, ghouls, werewolves and falling mill girls?"

In 1840, some of the mill girls even began writing and publishing literary magazines, including the Lowell Offering.

"Miners, mothers and mill girls: capturing the changing North" (selection of photographs).

In 1836, the Lowell Mill Girls organized their second strike, or "turn out" as they called them.

Industrial and port cities around the region were built on the backs of factory workers, mill girls and sailors.

"The motivation of mill girls, as you can see," said Aemilianus, "is high.

Gilkerson was mill girl working in a textile factory and living in a boarding house.

"Did you see, Gentlemen," asked Aemilianus, "and she only an untrained mill girl."

Amy continued at the Welcome until she received a call to work among the mill girls of Manchester in 1889 before moving onto missionary work.

Davis counteracts positive images of healthy, wholesome mill girls and mills as ideal places of work.

"That is a mill girl?"

He holds that workers should own and control their workplace, a view held (as he notes) by the Lowell Mill Girls.

From these applications, they are sometimes referred to, naturally enough, as "kitchen girls", "laundry girls", "mill girls", and so on.