Subscribe to our newsletter. Some resources on women in the factory, industrial conditions, and working women's rights. They were recruited with images of strong women like Rosie the Riveter. And it wasn't just in America. Girls Young women left the farm and went to work in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, six days a week, twelve or more hours a day.
Some resources relate to unions for women factory workers.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place From the curators of a Smithsonian exhibit on sweatshops. Many sweatshop workers were seamstresses and other women, though that's not the article's focus. Engendering Change Union organizing efforts with women working in the maquiladora factories. Life of the Industrial Worker Nineteenth Century England saw the rise of factory labor. Here, men and women testify before Parliament on working conditions.