History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1206 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Wages at Lowell
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The idea
Weekly wages in eighteen thirty-three ran from about two dollars seventy-eight for picking and carding to four dollars for warping and sizing.
In practice
Spinning at three dollars a week and weaving at about three dollars ten.
Where people slip
The differences between tasks are small. Skill bought very little at these rates.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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