Lowell-Waltham System
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There were many systems of recruiting factory labor that developed between 1820 and 1860. One of these systems was the recruitment of young women from rural areas (called the Lowell-Waltham System). The Lowell system was a method of factory management that evolved in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, owned by the Boston Manufacturing Company.
In place of traditional family discipline, the workers experienced new restraints. For example, they either has to live either in boardinghouses or in licensed private ...
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