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Interpreting Lowell Offering and Industrialization

 

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             The letter has a detailed description of the work women did in the factory, and in the view of Susan. The letter tells the reader where the work is done, how the woman appears after or during work, and compared the different jobs. "The carding room, where the cotton flies most, and the girls get the dirtiest. Then there is the spinning rooms, which is very neat and pretty. In some of the factories the spinners do their own doffling and when this is the case they work no harder than the weavers" (Farley, 4). This part of the letter explains the different work the women had to do in the factory; signifying, that the factory is a large building that has the purpose of producing many different types of products related to textiles. Therefore, most of the jobs that are found in urban areas are specific concentrated jobs that are used to increase an urban areas economy. This is similar to the early 1800's record of Industrialization. Since the early 1800's is like the baby steps of Industrialization many firm started out small such as cotton, textile and wool. Much like what the women was working on in the letter. "The material processed changed, from linen and wool to cotton; the way that cotton was grown and prepared changed, with the invention of the cotton gin and the reinvention of the plantation; new machines, invented to process the cotton, found a new setting in larger and more complex factories" ("Early Industrialization," 1). This recorded information and the work that the women did in the factory is parallel to each other. The information states that due to the work the woman did in the factory many modifications have been made. I think that the modifications were made to give the women a simpler time in making the wool or cotton. In this way the production would be faster and quantity could be larger, but the work that they put into the job won't be reduced.


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