8 We can give employment to from 50 to 100 girls, at the usual
wages paid in this place. Our custom is to pay to new hands one
dollar per week, & board in the Weaving & Dressing Rooms, &
one dollar & a half & board, in the Carding & Spinning Rooms,
until they can tend the Machines without assistance. After that
they are paid for all the work they can get off
-John Clark, July 27, 1847
The economic growth demonstrated by this recruitment letter was primarily a result of -
F the passage of strict federal labor laws
G the abolition of the slave trade
H the expansion of the cottage industry system
J
the new production methods of industrialization