Lowell Mill girls

I already wrote about this week topic last week so this is last week topic, we read about the Lowell Mill girls for homework. In both of the letters, the girls seemed to have a similar ideal liberty. The right to work and earn money. Even in the short story, a week at the mill, the girls seemed happy to work at the mill even though it would have been hard to work that long with under wage. According to, a week at the mill, most of the girls were from the country, which was the reason why they wanted to work. It said that they wanted to work for more clothes and things of that area. I was wondering, why didn't they work for money instead? Wouldn’t it be better, so they could help their families more? Another question that I have is, did they get compensation for injuries? Did their families get compensation if they died working at the mill? In any case, were injuries even common while working with the machines? Like with hands and fingers in the sewing machines probably. The girls probably went there because they wanted to also break social norms. Like how girls are supposed to not work in that time, at least not that much. My last question is, did they also work on Saturdays, because it only talked about having Sunday off.