About This Lesson
This five-minute educational video explores the vital role of immigrant women during the Industrial Revolution, highlighting how their labor, resilience and advocacy shaped America’s economic and social transformation. The content in this video is adapted from the essay Immigrant Women, Work and Society During the Second Revolution, which is found in The ILC's "Immigrant Women and the Industrial Revolution" lesson bundle. You can find information on the "Immigrant Women and the Industrial Revolution" resource bundle and sources for all the images in this video on our website: https://www.ilctr.org/for-teachers/teaching-us-immigration-series/immigrant-women-industrial-revolution-lesson-plans-resource-bundle/
Sourced from the Library of Congress, The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives and the Digital Public Library of America.
The video is sponsored in part by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Eastern Region Program, coordinated by Waynesburg University.
