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The City of Spindles: Greek Women in the Lowell Mills
Labor & Trades ·1895

The City of Spindles: Greek Women in the Lowell Mills

— Greek Women Mill Workers of Lowell, Massachusetts, from Various regions of Greece

By 1920, Lowell, Massachusetts was home to the third-largest Greek community in the United States. The women who came there — ma…

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