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 ...

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 ...

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 ...