Transcription of The Changing Workplace
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One American's StoryReforming American Society259In 1841 a brief narrative appeared in the Lowell Offering, the firstjournal written by and for female mill workers. A young girlwho toiled in the mill identified only by the initials wrote about the decision of Susan Miller to save her family sfarm by working in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills. At first, Susan found the factory work dispiriting, but shemade friends, and was proud of the wages she sent Every morning the bells pealed forth the same clangor, andevery night brought the same feeling of fatigue.
OHIO MICHIGAN KENTUCKY VIRGINIA MD. PENN. DEL. N.J. R.I. CONN. MASS. N.H. MAINE VT. NEW YORK C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C F F F F F F F F F F N S E W Cities with over 100,000 population Flour Textiles Clothing and footwear Iron and copper ore Coal Timber Machinery and equipment Weaponry Canal Railroad F C 0 050100 kilometers 50 100 miles ...
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