Mill girls and strangers : single women's independent migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881 / Wendy M. Gordon.
"In the nineteenth-century mill towns of Preston, England; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Paisley, Scotland, there were specific demands for migrant and female labor, and potential employers provided the necessary respectable conditions in order to attract them. Using individual accounts, this inno...
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