TY - BOOK AU - Flanagan,Alice K. TI - The Lowell mill girls T2 - We the people SN - 075651262X AV - HD6073.T42 U535 2006 U1 - 331.3/877/009744/409/034 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Minneapolis PB - Compass Point KW - Textile workers KW - History KW - sears KW - Women KW - Lowell (Mass.) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index; Becoming a mill girl -- How the Lowell mills began -- Job and educational opportunities -- Factory conditions -- How the mill girls made cloth -- Life in a boardinghouse -- Getting an education -- What became of the mill girls; 5.5; 5-8; Follett Library Resources; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 6.2; 1.0; 101420 N2 - Presents a history of the Lowell Textile Mills in Massachusetts, and describes how they began, the job and education opportunities for women, life in a boardinghouse, and more ER -