During the Industrial Revolution, women as well as society were greatly affected by the mistreatment of the affluent factory owners who cared more for self beneficiation. The Industrial Revolution birthed machineries for making cloth and steam engines to run the machines. The machines were run by women and children, taken from their New England farm homes. In an account, “Slavers for New England Girls (1846)”, by the girls at the Lowell factory, it says, “The factory powers in the village of forcing poor girls from their quiet homes to become their tools and, like Southern slaves, to give up their life and liberty to the heartless tyrants and taskmasters.” The workers were greatly disrespected as humans, for forced labor. This was done without
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Strong, wrote in his diary, “Disaster in a Massachusetts Mill (1860), “A huge factory, long notoriously insecure and ill-built, requiring to be patched and bandaged up with iron plates and braces to stand the introduction of its machinery, sudden to collapsed into a heap of ruins yesterday afternoon without the smallest provocation. Some five or six hundred operatives went down with it- young girls and women mostly.” These factories, the Pemberton textile mill in particular, were made solely for a profit and as long as the profit was made, the wellbeing of the workers were disregarded. Formulating the industrial economy was the main priority in the factories. The women in society weren’t able to freely live a comfortable life. A reformist writer in a contemporary American journal, “The Abuse of Female Workers (1836)”, wrote about the women being restricted to a schedule that had to be followed everyday. From the time they ate to the time they slept was thoroughly planned out. They were expected to work 18 hours daily, in an umpire atmosphere. After working, an average of six women were put into a room consisting of only three beds, leaving no privacy. It was almost impossible for children and women to live peaceful unhindered
Strong, wrote in his diary, “Disaster in a Massachusetts Mill (1860), “A huge factory, long notoriously insecure and ill-built, requiring to be patched and bandaged up with iron plates and braces to stand the introduction of its machinery, sudden to collapsed into a heap of ruins yesterday afternoon without the smallest provocation. Some five or six hundred operatives went down with it- young girls and women mostly.” These factories, the Pemberton textile mill in particular, were made solely for a profit and as long as the profit was made, the wellbeing of the workers were disregarded. Formulating the industrial economy was the main priority in the factories. The women in society weren’t able to freely live a comfortable life. A reformist writer in a contemporary American journal, “The Abuse of Female Workers (1836)”, wrote about the women being restricted to a schedule that had to be followed everyday. From the time they ate to the time they slept was thoroughly planned out. They were expected to work 18 hours daily, in an umpire atmosphere. After working, an average of six women were put into a room consisting of only three beds, leaving no privacy. It was almost impossible for children and women to live peaceful unhindered