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 ...

Accidents were frequent. Worst of all, mills were unventilated. Many workers were stricken with brown lung disease, a life threatening illness caused by breathing in cotton dust. Women's Response to ...

Standing against Sarah Cornell was her work in cotton mills. The Industrial Revolution was just beginning in America. Sarah would have been one of the first young women to seek employment outside ...

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 ...

Most people, up to three quarters of the workforce, who were employed by the factories and mills were women and children ... than children who worked in the cotton mills of England.