One of the most remarkable findings from the 1920 federal census concerns the gender composition of cotton mill workers. Unlike earlier generations, when women dominated the workforce (as late as 1885 ...

Standing in this Place' features an African-Caribbean farm worker and British mill worker ... of unnamed women who were the driving forces behind the East Midlands cotton and textile industry ...

More than a century ago, women workers of a cotton mill in Madurai held a nearly-two-month-long strike. They came together against gender discrimination and sexual harassment, and began to ...

As the railroad expanded in the South, production of cotton, wheat ... to the countryside once they saved some money. Many young women went because they saw farm life as a dead-end while the mills ...