The missus is teaching a unit on the Industrial Revolution in England and the US. She wants to show a movie about this time period, or featured in this time period to showcase what it was like. Perhaps a movie about the Lowell Mill girls.
Someone mentioned “Newsies”, but I’ve never seen it and don’t know much about it. Any suggestions?
There is an “Urban National Park” in Lowell that is all about the mills. I’d check out their website.
Not a movie, but a James Taylor song, “Millworker,” from the short-lived musical, “Working” from a book of the same name by Studs Terkel.
The song’s a first person account of a woman whose husband dies and leaves her with 3 children to feed, so she works at a mill.
The chorus goes:
It’s a great song.
No movie comes to mind. But there’s an educational site on the Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, NH. One of the links supplies Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell.
A song about Amoskeag–with a video clip.
(My grandmother emigrated to Manchester, but worked in a shoe factory, not the textile mill. She quit for marriage & motherhood–just before the mills started closing.)
She could have the class watch episodes of “Here Come the Brides”, but I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
Thanks for posting that! It’s great to see the song in context.
No problem. I saw this produced a year or so ago at the Unicorn Theater in Kansas City.