LIVING CONDITIONS

WAGES, AGE, HOURS....

• In the mid 1830’s, the average work week was six, twelve hour days
• •Six days a week earned a factory girl between $5 and $9
• the average factory worker was making about $18
• between fifteen to thirty years old, but might be as young as ten years old
• •The factories made textiles, rubber products, chemicals, machine parts, foodstuffs, shoes, and plastics.

Oh! Isnt it a pity, such a pretty girl as I Should be sent to the factory to pine away and die?.