Hovering on the outskirts of Greater Manchester, this nod to the North West’s industrial past has been memorialised- with the cotton industry’s dark origins not forgotten ...

cotton mill promoters promised the mill would provide work for white laborers (Smith 1960:9). Several factors induced large numbers of people to migrate to the mills. First among them was the ...

Follow the journey of a mill girl from her family farm in the New England countryside to her new job operating a loom in Lowell’s Boott Cotton Mills. Students will meet two mill girls during their ...

These people who moved from rural areas to urban areas soon discovered that working ... in the Belfast mills had less energy and were smaller than children who worked in the cotton mills of ...

Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...

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 ...

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Arkwright set up the first water-powered cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire, in 1771. He is regarded as the founder of the Factory Age. By 1783 Arkwight was rich enough to build a huge new mill ...