millhands
Textile plant employees
Millhands are workers in a mill, particularly textile or lumber mills.
The term evokes 19th- and early 20th-century industrial labor—long hours, low wages, and manual work tending machinery: The millhands filed in at dawn for their twelve-hour shift.
Now largely historical, replaced by more general terms like factory workers.
Fabric-making frame
- spindleRotating rod for thread
- weaverThread-interlacing craftsperson
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
- fabricWoven or knit material
thread · yarn · spinning · dyeing · bleaching · twill · denim · jacquard
Industrial production facility
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- productionMaking or generating something
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- assemblyConstructing from components
conveyor · plant · workshop · foundry · forge · industrialization · mass-production · steam-powered
loom
Fabric-making frame
fabric · thread · yarn · spinning · dyeing · bleaching · twill · denim · jacquard · batik
factory
Industrial production facility
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- productionMaking or generating something
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
assembly · conveyor · plant · workshop · foundry · forge · industrialization · mass-production · steam-powered · mechanization
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
drudgery · fatigue · arduous · backbreaking · strenuous · hardship · overwork · wages · shift · piecework
millhandswhite-collar workers
Salaried professional employees
office workers · executives · clerks · secretaries · professionals
millhandsmill owners
Proprietors of processing plants
proprietors · industrialists · management · capitalists · employers