How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 29, 2015
Similarly slow progress was seen in steam engines, factory electrification, and petroleum refining. One mill girl, Lucy Larcom, studied German and botany, and published poems in the mill girls’ literary magazine during the 1830s and 1840s; she came to the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier, who became her mentor.
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