mill workers
Industrial plant employees
Mill workers are people employed in mills—factories that process raw materials through grinding, rolling, or mechanical production.
The term most often refers to textile mill workers, historically significant during industrialization: Mill workers labored twelve-hour shifts in dangerous conditions.
It also applies to workers in steel mills, paper mills, lumber mills, and flour mills.
- mechanizationConverting to machine operation
- loomFabric-making frame
- LudditesAnti-technology movement members
- child labor lawsRegulations governing minor employment
- spinning jennyEarly multi-spool thread maker
machine operator · factory system · factory floor · industrial revolution · bobbin · occupational hazards · foreman · piece rate · carding · sweatshops · weaver · labor union · packager · strikes · overtime · paycheck · hands · dust
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- industrializationfactory, industrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing
- blue-collar jobsfactory work, factory worker, construction, farm hand, miners
- industrial workerslaborers, maintenance crews, maintenance crew, forklift drivers, packers
- labor fictionlabor strikes, labor movement, working class, labor, coal miners
- labor historyAFL-CIO, labor movement, CIO, laborers, unionization
mill workerswhite-collar workers
Salaried professional employees
office workers · executives · professionals · managers · knowledge workers
mill workersmill owners
Proprietors of processing plants
industrialists · capitalists · proprietors · management · bosses
mill workersservice workers
Employees serving the public
bankers · consultants · software engineers · financiers · academics