Which of the following is a characteristic of the Lowell system?
Group of answer choices
Providing workers with a company store.
Employing young, unmarried women who were given room and meals along with their jobs.
Using an apprentice system where young men worked for several years to learn the trade.
Hiring entire families to work in the mill.
1 answer
The characteristic of the Lowell system is:
Employing young, unmarried women who were given room and meals along with their jobs.
The Lowell system, developed in the early industrial era in the United States, specifically employed young women, often from rural areas, who lived in company-owned boarding houses and worked in textile mills.
