The bobbin girl

Description:

A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?

subjects: Fiction,  Textile workers,  Strikes and lockouts,  Strikes and lockouts in fiction,  Child labor,  Textile workers in fiction,  Lowell (Mass.),  Child labor in fiction,  Textile industry,  Children's fiction,  Labor, fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction