The Belles of New England
Textile workers
Industrialists
Textile industry
Family-owned business enterprises
Rich people
Social classes
History
"The Belles of New England is the story of one group of pioneers in the American labor movement - the thousands of women who left New England farm towns to work in the textile cities that sprang up in the region in the early nineteenth century. Their goal was to achieve personal independence, their …
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