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|| Ali S., Sean B., Sarah M. || factory girls association: mill workers of the lowell organization stageds a strike against their 25% pay cut. deskilling: artisans that found themselves not able to compete with the bigger industries of business's formed societies to help eachother through. ||
 * ** Men and Women at Work **
 * Chapter 10 Section 4 **
 * Key Terms || * Lowell or Waltham system: recruted farmers daughters in their late teens to work in factories
 * Factory Girls Association: a union created for the girls that worked in Lowell
 * The Panic of 1837: delaied improvments in the mills
 * Commonwealth v. Hunt: unions were a lawful organization and a strike was a lawful weapon ||
 * 3-5 Important Ideas || # Mills started to hire young women and immigrants to work in the mills for cheep
 * 1) The factory system deminished atisin jobs
 * 2) Factories made mass amounts of products quicly and cheeply
 * 3) Workers began to get agravated with their working conditions and attempted to make it better by creating unions and going on strike. ||
 * Summary/Main Idea Statement || As factories began to prosper the men and women that worked there wanted to improve the factories which led to the creation of unions. ||
 * ** Men and Women at Work **
 * roxanne deblois* and annie kim **
 * Chapter 10 Section 4 **
 * Key Terms || lowell system: one of the two systems of recruitment that emergerd to bring new labor supply to the expanding textile mills which enlisted young women to work for them.
 * 3-5 Important Ideas || # increasing supply of of immigrant work helped the industries be able to cheap immigrant labor. this was beneficial to the the manufacturers and industries but the immigrant workers often worked in harsh conditions.
 * 1) in the early years of the factory work, recruiting labor was not an easy task.
 * 2) women created associations to improve their work place
 * 3) unions and strikes became a good "weapon" for the unhappy workers in this harsh industry. ||
 * Summary/Main Idea Statement || workers made numerous efforts to fight for their right to an equal and just work place. ||

Tim Ouellette and James Giudice || --Work in the mills was hard, but it was better then working all day on the farms. --Workers finally had power to go against the boss. They could do this by forming unions and going on strikes. When workers felt like they were treated unfairly, they used these techniques. ||
 * ** Men and Women at Work **
 * Chapter 10 Section 4 **
 * Key Terms || **Lowell System**- This system brought woman from farms to work in the mill during their late teens and early twenties.
 * Factory Girls Association** - This was a union formed by the girls who worked in the Lowell Mills.
 * Commonwealth v. Hunt** - Declared that unions were lawful organizations and the strike was a lawful weapon. ||
 * 3-5 Important Ideas || -- When factories first started, finding workers were hard. The owners of the mills had to look at the immigrant groups and woman to work for low wages in their mills
 * Summary/Main Idea Statement || As northern Mills began to flourish, the work force of immigrants and woman began to fight for equal rights in the work place. ||