Lowell Female Labor Reform Association

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The Lowell Female Labor Reform Association was a 19th-century organization of women mill workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, that campaigned for improved labor conditions and shorter working hours in the early American industrial era.

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Lowell Female Labor Reform Association canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical organization
labor organization
women's organization
activeInCentury 19th century
aim improve labor conditions
increase wages
influence labor legislation
protect health of workers
secure a ten-hour workday
shorten working hours
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved late 1840s
fieldOfWork industrial reform
labor reform
women's labor activism
workers' rights
hasGenderComposition predominantly female
hasLeader Sarah G. Bagley
hasMemberType factory workers
mill operatives
textile workers
hasNotableMember Harriet Farley
Sarah G. Bagley
other Lowell mill girls
historicalPeriod early American industrial era
historicalSignificance helped popularize the ten-hour workday demand
one of the first women's labor organizations in the United States
pioneered female-led labor reform campaigns
inception 1844
industry textile industry
influenced subsequent labor reform organizations
women's labor activism in the United States
locatedIn Lowell textile mills
Lowell, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
Massachusetts
New England
opposed excessive corporate control over workers' lives
long working hours in textile mills
unsafe mill conditions
partOf Lowell mill girls
surface form: Lowell mill girls movement

early American labor movement
published The Voice of Industry
usedMethod collective organizing
moral suasion
petition campaigns
public meetings
publishing articles
testimony before state legislature

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Lowell textile mills associatedWith Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
Lowell mill girls organizedIn Lowell Female Labor Reform Association
Lowell mill girls participantIn Lowell Female Labor Reform Association