was home to many young, single farm girls who might be recruited. But would stern New England farmers allow their daughters to work in factories? The great majority of them would not. They believed that sooner or later factory workers would be exploited and would sink into hopeless poverty. Economic "laws" would force them to work harder and harder for less and less pay. How, then, were the factory owners able

to recruit farm girls as laborers? They did it by building decent houses in which the girls could live. These houses were supervised by older women who made sure that t

legislatures responded favorably. In 1851, for example, New Jersey

forbade children under 16 years old to work between 7p.m. and 6a.m.

entering the United States at this time were primarily from southern

the health and safety of industrial workers, equal pay for equal work,

labor unions generally. Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ruled that it was

advocated the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of a new

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