- Collection:
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection
- Title:
- Testimony of Lina McFarland
- Creator:
- Daly, A. M. (Alexander M.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- McFarland, Lina
- Date of Original:
- 1915-03-17/1915-03-27
- Subject:
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills--Employees--History--20th century
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Textile workers--Medical care--Georgia--Atlanta
United Textile Workers of America
United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
Governmental investigations
Textile factories--Georgia--Atlanta
Labor unions--Georgia--Atlanta
Work environment--Georgia--Atlanta
Industrial relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Cotton textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Cotton textile industry--Employees
Cotton spinning--Georgia--Atlanta
Cotton textiles--Georgia--Atlanta
Bags
Women textile workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Employment--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Georgia--Social conditions
Women--Georgia--Atlanta
Industrial housing--Georgia--Atlanta
Housing--Georgia--Atlanta
Eviction--Georgia--Atlanta
Discrimination in employment--Georgia--Atlanta
Sick leave
Age and employment--Georgia--Atlanta
Child labor--Georgia--Atlanta
Mills and mill-work--Georgia--Atlanta
Wages--Textile workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Spinning--Georgia--Atlanta
Exposition Mills (Atlanta, Ga.)
Whittier Mill (Atlanta, Ga.)
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike, Atlanta, Ga., 1914-1915 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Cabbagetown, 33.748162, -84.3665927 - Medium:
- testimonies
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- A witness for the union, spinner Lina McFarland discusses starting to work at the Mills at age eleven, her lack of eduction, and working conditions in the Mills.
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Exhibit is a joint project between the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center's Archives and Records Management, Digital Initiatives, and Systems departments. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://exhibit-archive.library.gatech.edu/fulton_bag/itema42c.html?collection=ms004&filename=ms004-004.xml
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Please cite [Folder Title, Series and Subseries Title,] Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills records, Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Extent:
- 9 p. ; 8.5"x11"
- Original Collection:
- Box 8, Folder 7 McFarland, Lina (L. McF.) March 1915, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills records, Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department
- Rights:
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