The Lowell Mill Girls: Organized Labor and the First Strikes in America with Rick Feingold

They were fed up and wouldn't take the factory working conditions anymore so the Lowell mill workers went on strike in 1834.  The textile industry was the first to become mechanized and working condition were harsh.  Young women recruited off the farms worked 70 hours and six days a week.  When wages were cut the workers walked out.  Join us as we learn about the Luddites -- the machine-breakers who rejected the regimentation of the factory system and the working conditions of the early industrial era.  Rick Feingold teaches American Business History at Bergen Community College and holds a degree in History from Rutgers University.  This program is both in person in the library and live streaming via Zoom.  Register is necessary on mahwahlibrary.org events calendar to receive the Zoom Link (Don't forget to give us your email address).