jan 1, 1847 - Lowell Wage Slavery

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A Women's Workers Club in Massachusetts set up a protest against their factory workers. They said that they are doing the same job as a man and gets payed less. They think that the aristocratic factory owners are to done up in their rich lives and they don't no the reality of factory work. The site how dangerous the jobs are and that the risk of dying is high. They were successful in the long run when the government mad minimum wage and the paycheck fairness act.

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