Harriet Robinson captured a golden age for female factory workers for women in New England, who led the way for fair pay in America.
Harriet Robinson captured the fleeting golden age for female factory laborers—a unique period when the daughters of New England led the way in the transformation of America … and of themselves.
Then, in the early 1800s, power machinery for the manufacture of textiles was introduced in New England. Since nearly all men were already engaged in farming, it was necessary to fill the demand for labor by enticing female workers to the new factories. Gradually thousands of girls and women ventured out of their sheltered homes to toil for wages in the cotton mills.
Harriet Robinson described the meager opportunities for self-support available to women before the opening of the cotton mills. Money was scarce in New England, and a woman’s labor could command little monetary return: Two years later, wages again were cut. Harriet Robinson, then 11 years old, participated in a strike, or “turn out” as it was called.
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