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Time off to do Nothing | Company Towns | KB #Shorts
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Workers at Lowell were given three unpaid holidays a year, what were they and what did they do with them?
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@Anonymous-ks8el

2 years ago

I watch cars drive a few hundred miles in a circle
Times ain't changed much I tell ya

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@deusexaethera

2 years ago

Having time to just stare at the sky is invaluable.

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@danaroth598

2 years ago

There were actually a bustling variety of novels they could have read (few books from the period are still in publication today, but that has more to do with changing tastes in writing style than an actual lack of books). But novel-reading was often seen as a frivolous female hobby that encouraged an overactive imagination and even licentious behavior, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was discouraged or at least heavily monitored.

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@cfv7461

2 years ago

Me n' the gals going to see some guys walking in circles šŸ˜Ž

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@Loooam

2 years ago

Iā€™m from Lowell and I appreciate whenever I see it brought up in media. I also appreciate that there is more to do now šŸ˜…

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@AysaTheNotSoGreat

2 years ago

as someone who lives near Lowell, it's awesome that you expanded on it! Thank you!

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@RadicalWarren

2 years ago

Not having a lot to do in Lowell was by design. The town and it's street car and railway companies created Canobie Lake Park in not-so-nearby Salem NH. It was only accessible to the mill girls and canal diggers by rail (big surprise). The girls got Sunday off for church, but that meant they weren't paying for street car rides if they didn't want to live in the boarding houses. Since church wasn't all day, this was a way for Lowell to get a little of that money back from the girls. Fun fact, to this day, "The CannonBall", the wooden rollercoaster at Canbie Lake Park, is still operated with DC streetcar controls.

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@Usagi393

2 years ago

Thatā€™s how I met my husband: watching him run around in a circle

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@whyus2000

2 years ago

Posted 7 seconds ago, Damn.

On topic: I didnā€™t know Thanksgiving was an arbitrary date before the civil war, that is both hilarious and kinda annoying, since it means the government can indeed just ā€œmakeupā€ a day-off whenever it wants to, it just chooses not to :/

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@namehere5675

2 years ago

You could say that guys running in circles was the best form of entertainment around. :)

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@ThapeloMKT

2 years ago

"I'm not sure what they needed these holidays for anyways, it's not like there was anything to do during their time off"

Sometimes it's nice to not do anything

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@parkercushingable

2 years ago

I loved your episode on company towns and love hearing your information about labor and the union movement!

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@chronus9083

2 years ago

I lost your channel!!! I've been looking for it for years, so glad I've finally found it again :))

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@Adam_Bosscoe

2 years ago

That's my hometown! My grandmother was a mill girl

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@endplanets

2 years ago

The War on 'free time' has always been as persistent / intense as it is baffling.
Aside from not being in the mines: if you have free time you can think about unfair scenarios, make friends (to form a union or have a safety net which weakens the powerful's grip on you), go to bars and drink evil beer, do evil sex stuff, etc.

Especially women. If they had a second of free time it was to cheat on their husbands. Aside: women using phones and bicycles for women were heavily decried and banned as they allegedly help women cheat.

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@BlastedRodent

2 years ago

Even without books and video games, you can still have funā€¦ but I strongly suspect the flirtatious mix of dancing, drinking, pranking and divination young european farmhands got up to on holidays in the same time period were NOT allowed in Lowell.

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@TheKing-qz9wd

2 years ago

I'd imagine that if you had a few friends who also had some time off then you'd just chill.

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@mothanwrdz

2 years ago

Holiday = Holy Day: a day of rest, set apart, holy. You would rest. Duh!

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@Core2lee91

11 months ago

Just wanted to say Iā€™ve recently discovered your channel and whilst Iā€™m from the UK so much of this isnā€™t quite as relevant as it is to you guys the quality of content you put out is absolute top level. Thank you!

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@AdolphusOfBlood

2 years ago

"The news paper and the bible" No there were plenty of books back then that were great reads, it's just that the people that shaped the modern list of "classics" never read them. So they lay forgotten. Dime novels were a trend that started in the 1860s, but before them there was still novels, they had just not become a popular trend to the point they left a mark in the cultural memory.

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