The bobbin girl

author: McCully, Emily Arnold
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--whether or not she will participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell.
year: 1996
call number/section: 1000
subjects: textile workers, fiction, strikes and lockouts, textile workers, children, employment, strikes, lowell (mass.), fiction
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