Wages/age/hours

•In the mid 1830’s, the average work week was six, twelve hour days. The mills were closed to observe four holidays during the year: Fast Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
•Six days a week earned a factory girl between $5 and $9. At the same time the average factory worker was making about $18.
•They were between fifteen to thirty years old, but might be as young as ten years old. Farm life, especially for unwed daughters, was very tough as well--the work never stopped, and for many young women the social life in the "dormitories" was preferable to the isolation of rural life

•The factories made textiles, rubber products, chemicals,
machine parts, foodstuffs, shoes, and plastics.