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SUMMARY:The Lowell Mill Girls
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DESCRIPTION:They were fed up and couldn’t take the factory working 
 conditions anymore so the Lowell Mill workers went on strike in 1834..\nht
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 e harsh. Young women recruited off the farms worked 70 hours and six days 
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