This blog will discuss how the Industrial Revolution was brought about by the creation of technology. This technology was placed in a building called a factory. These new factories would allow young women to leave home and find work in the city allowing them more independence.

Factories
How did factories change life in America?

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=609

• Where were the factories located?
• Why were they located there?
• Who worked in the factories?

1. Please look at the images and view the video that describes life in the factories of Lowell Massachusetts.

 Images of what the inside of the factory looked like
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJwOYagvuI

• Describe what the factory looked like.

2. Read the explanation about what it is like to work in a factory by clicking on the attached  documents:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19c30xVZFr3HtEG1It7YVeu7wXyl00j2vxC9UuEfSFM8/edit
http://library.uml.edu/clh/All/doc02.htm
http://library.uml.edu/clh/All/np01.htm
http://library.uml.edu/clh/All/lof03.htm
Letter samples are from: Mary Beth Norton.1989. Major Problems in American Women's History. Documents and Essays. D.C. Heath and Company. 1989. pg 176.

Letter samples from : Jesus Garcia, Donna M. Ogle, C. Frederick Risinger, Joyce Stevos.  Creating America. McDougal Little. 2007. pg. 330-331



As you read these letters please answer the following questions.

1. What were the basic ideas presented in the letters?
2. What were some of the injuries that the women suffered?
3. Do these letters present a positive  image of factory life?Explain