Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migr...
Gordon, Wendy M.
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 innovative and comparative study examines the migrants' lives by addressing their reasons for migration, their relationship to their families, the roles they...
