Lowell Mill Girls: Organized Labor and the First Strikes in America via Zoom

They were fed up and wouldn’t take the factory working conditions anymore, so the Lowell Mill workers went on strike in 1834.  The textile industry was the first to become mechanized, and working conditions were harsh. Young women recruited off the farms worked 70 hours/six days a week.  When wages were cut, the workers walked out.  Join Rick Feingold, American Business History Professor at Bergen Community College, as we learn about the Luddites—the machine-breakers who rejected the regimentation of the factory system, and the working conditions of the early industrial era.  Register here to receive the Zoom invitation.  Note:  This program is co-hosted with the Somers Library, the Harrison Public Library, the Town of Pelham Public Library, and the Hendrick Hudson Free Library.