Young workers up to age 7 work 12-14 hours a day. In the 1800s, Francis Cobalt Lowell had a vision of an industrial utopia. People working in the mills were between the ages of 7-60s. They lived and worked in dangerous work conditions. Lowell’s vision of an ideal factory has not been reached. First, workers in the mills and sweatshops were mostly exploited employees who worked long hours with little pay. People who worked in the mills were cheated into working long hours and in the end, they would get paid very little. “The operatives work thirteen hours a day in the summertime, and from daylight to dark in the winter.”(The female workers of Lowell 1). Laborers in the summertime would work a long thirteen hours, but in the wintertime, they would…show more content… “Young girls working in the mills as young as seven were called doffers. They worked from five o’clock in the morning until seven in the evening. They were paid two dollars a week.” (Loom and Spindle 1). There were workers in the mills who were as young as seven years old, working for as long as fifteen hours and only earning two dollars. “Up to 60% of the factory workers were children, and the whole” (Mills in Massachusetts: A Changing America 1) People working for Lowell in his factories were mostly made out of children. Child labor is little to no different compared to back then in the factories. Children are still working and only getting paid a little. These factories provided the workers with jobs that paid and allowed them to have a home within the areas of the factories. People were allowed to sleep in boarding houses set up by manufacturers. People were allowed to sleep in boarding houses set up by manufacturers. Though Lowell had living spaces for the women, the living spaces weren’t private, there was little to no space in rooms, it was crowded with an average of 6 people per room, and they were also getting paid very little for their
