Working Conditions of the "Lowell Essay

Yet, in her story of the woman who worked the in the Lowell Mills she asserts that the labor benefited them both financially, opening up new venues to gainful employment, and by implication socially, giving as an example the first time a woman spoke in public in Lowell to protest the cutting of wages at the factories.

Marx and Engels contention is that though this might be so at what price? They speak of the downfall of religious fervor, chivalrous enthusiasm and philistine sentimentalities, turning personal worth into exchange value for services rendered, and exchanging personal freedom for free trade.

Thought the United States never existed under the ancient Roman social order or the Feudal society of the Middle Ages, the country was mainly settled by northern Europeans. This is our heritage. The Industrial revolution sparked the rise of big business around the world. The conditions described by Harriet Robinson in the portion of her autobiography concerning the Lowell Mills Girls were the types of situations Marx and Engel's were referring to when they were writing Communist Manifesto.

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