Green Mountaineer Online: Child Labor

Do you have a job? In the 1830s and 1840s, many girls left Vermont to work in factories. Read their stories. Would you want to work in a mill?

• Mill Fever
• Letters from Lowell: A Factory Girl Writes Home
• The Factory Girl's Song
• Bells, Boardinghouses, and Backwater: A Millhand's Glossary
• The Lowell Offering: Showing the World What Factory Girls Could Do
• Factory Girl Word Find
  

In the early 1900s, some boys and girls worked long hours to make money for their families. What did Vermonters do to help these children?

• The Bitter Cry of the Children
  

Have you read the book Bread & Roses, Too? It's about children of factory workers who were on strike in Massachusetts. Here's an article about the real story:

• Thirty-Five Children Are Coming