Textile Mills Document Analysis

Which job title had far more employees than the other job titles?

• Weaver

• Sparehead

• Spinner

• Dresser

Why would dressers make the most money among jobs?

• Dressers were the last workers to touch the product before customers saw it

• Dressers made the product

• Dressers prepared the product just before they're sold

• Dressers were the salemen of the company

The average daily wage for a factory worker was __ cents per ___

Sally Rice had experience working in both a ...

• Farm

• Plantation

• Textile Factory

• Gold Mine

How did the worker describe the factory work environment?

• Free

• Noisy

• Peaceful

• Confined

At the end of the letter, the worker suggested that people should only work in a factory for ...

• A year or two

• Not work in factories at all

• The rest of their life

• Five to ten years

According to the author, what was the main incentive or motivation for women to work in textile mills?

• To earn a living to live on their own

• To save money for college for themselves

• To help pay the bills for single parent households

• Secure an education for a male family member

"To make a _______ of a brother or a son, to give him a 
college education"

Based on the author, it was common for women to keep all their earned money for themselves.

• True

• False