Author Question: Women workers at the Lowell mills A) occupied operative, as well as managerial, positions. B) ... (Read 80 times)

mpobi80 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

For outworkers, the invention of the sewing machine in the 1850s

A) reduced the pool of potential workers.
B) led bosses to expect a greater volume of work.
C) allowed workers to labor at home for the first time.
D) ensured easier and more pleasant tasks.

Question 2

By the 1850s, all of the following factors undermined the united action of women mill workers EXCEPT the

A) long tenure of women workers.
B) arrival of Irish immigrants.
C) use of segregated living quarters.
D) hiring of more male workers.

Question 3

A short-lived strike by Lowell's women workers in February 1834 occurred in protest of

A) wage cuts.
B) poor sales.
C) rising inventories.
D) falling prices.

Question 4

Women workers at the Lowell mills

A) occupied operative, as well as managerial, positions.
B) seldom formed close ties with one another.
C) lived in closely supervised company boardinghouses.
D) faced challenging and varied routines.