Dock workers 1920

While the west was being settled, large factories sprang up back east that gave many women new opportunities. Women who worked in textile mills were called “Mill Girls.” However don’t the term fool you. The employable age was between 14 to 35 years old. And rule #1 was that they be single women. One ... Read more

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Workers at A. Atwater Kent's Philadelphia radio factory. 1920s

Female workers in Beale Factory, 1920s. Source: National Museum of Australia

1920 photo of a radio manufacturing assembly line with all women workforce!

Woman worker grinding a machined part at Curtiss-Wright. Photograph by F. Dale Smith, 1943-44. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collection. Smith, Dale F. Collection. n34371.

This photo shows workers at their stations in a factory. One can see the assigned parts, showing a vital component of the revolution: the assembly line, which allowed for rapid production.

This is a photo of women factory workers protesting unsafe labor conditions. I included the photo to shed light on the creation of labor union organizations in response to changes brought by the Industrial Revolution.