Module 13:2 Changes in Working Life

The Lowell system included practices such as hiring young unmarried women from local farms to work in the textile mill.

• True

• False

Sometimes union members staged protests called trade unions.

• True

• False

The Lowell system was Samuel Slater’s strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.

• True

• False

One of the strongest female voices in the union movement belonged to Sarah G. Bagley, who founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association.

• True

• False

Francis Cabot Lowell was a businessman from New England whose ideas completely changed the textile industry in the Northeast.

• True

• False

Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions for their members were called strikes.

• True

• False

Mill owners advertised for “Men with growing families wanted” in support of the Lowell system.

• True

• False

Workers on strike refuse to work until their employers meet their demands.

• True

• False