Essays on Lowell

‘Lowell Mills’ referred to collectively, is a reference to the series of mills and factories which were built in the city of Lowell. These factories and mills were unique for the time in that they combined the two separate disciplines of spinning and weaving under the same roof, rather than having them in separate buildings, which was a feature which helped to boost the mass production of cloth. By the time of the 1830s, it was estimated that roughly three-quarters of the work force in the Lowell factories were women. These combination mills came to be known as the ...

New technical inventions gave possibilities for female factory workers therefore an employment in Lowell's mill can be regarded as a way of training and education. I would rather have taken a job in Lowell's mill because I can consider such a job in a textile manufacture as a way to assist the family. It helps to support the family budget, sending money home. Female workers of the manufactures have found a new sense of solidarity with their peers, also it was possible to get a new female identity, which was no less important than economic independence. Employment led to ...

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Appendixes 18 Introduction France has been debated on their expatriates’ citizen lately due to the expansion of expat workers. It is seen negatively as some politics state that it is a “lose of brains” for the country because of the crisis and fiscal pressure of the government (Biacabe & Robert, 2014). The French system is often criticized due to the high risk that entrepreneurs are facing when they open their business in France. For instance, as Jean Tirole who awarded the Nobel Prize in economic, explained the French labour ...

There can be a consensus among literary critics about the fact that poetry provides the utmost scope of exudation of literary quintessence and aesthetic appeal on the part of the literary artist. The literary artist has the liberty to use a number of metaphors that is a type of figure of speech in which a kind of expression is used for the purpose of referring to something that is not literally denoted by the expression. A metaphor thus goes on to suggest a similarity between the signifier and the signified in the literary work. Thus, metaphor can very well ...

Management

2016-05-13 This paper is devoted to the research on the leadership theories. As we know, leadership can be considered as a kind of power. Mandatory condition of leadership is the possession of power in specific formal or informal institutions. Many researchers have studied leadership as a social and psychological phenomenon from different points of view, highlighting a particular aspect of it. There are many leadership theories, from which five theories are described in this paper. One of them is the great man theory. Its main traits are the following: leaders are born, when there is a need of the ...

On Prison Reforms

Initially, between the sixteenth and seventeenth century, prisons were not meant to punish offenders. Rather, they were the holding places in which the people who dared to break a law and social norms remained until their due punishment. In other words, if one were to steal of murder, he or she would go to prison and wait for trial after which, based on the type of crime, the punishment would ensue. From whippings to executions, the kinds of sanctions in the years leading to prison reforms were swift. Accordingly, prisons lacked any form of order and were mostly poorly ...

Introduction

Industrialization is an inevitable and irreversible process. Whether disastrous or beneficial, the changes brought about by the industrialization period represent fundamental variations in people’s daily lives. Women have had little written about them in the histories of the period. The females differ from their male counterparts based on the roles they perform and biologically. The changes that were introduced by the phases of industrialization affected them uniquely and allowed them to take part in the factory process. Hence, this essay develops an explanation of the special duties women played and their experiences throughout the industrialization period. Since the ...