factory girls
Industrial female laborers
Factory girls are young women who work in factories, particularly in manufacturing or textile industries.
The term evokes images of industrial labor from the 19th century through today—mill workers in Victorian England, assembly line workers in developing nations.
It can carry connotations of exploitation and harsh working conditions: The factory girls worked twelve-hour shifts for meager wages.
The phrase sometimes appears in historical or journalistic contexts examining labor practices.
- millGrain-crushing facility
- loomsEmerges menacingly, or textile frames
- textileMaterial from woven fibers
- spindlesRotating rods for thread
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
sewing machine · sweatshop · dormitory · wages · strike · labor · seamstress · assembly line · needles · thread · machinery · working conditions · whistle · shift · time clock · aprons · braids · tenement
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, women's movement, suffrage movement, notable women
- New EnglandMaine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
- industry in literaturemill towns, textile workers, iron works, dock workers
- women's rightssuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, gender equality, feminism
- cotton textilescotton, cotton gin, cotton mills, cotton yarn, cotton cloth
- Women's Reformsuffrage movement, women's suffrage, women's rights, feminism, suffragist
factory girlsmaster craftsmen
Experts in skilled trades
artisans · guild masters · handicraftsmen · journeymen · cobblers
factory girlsmill owners
Proprietors of processing plants
industrialists · capitalists · proprietors · bourgeoisie · manufacturers
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