![]() There is a great deal of porn-related content online. Children also see a lot of inappropriate images. They think it’s people posting photos of what they had to eat, but there is also a lot of bullying going on. A lot of people can’t cope with the anxiety if they see someone has criticised a photo, or posted a picture that looks better than theirs.Ī lot of parents don’t understand what happens on social media. There is an unwritten rule about how you should look in your pictures – how you should do your makeup and what filter you should use. They think they need to start again and present a different image. They decide they don’t want their photos “out there”. Then, when I check back on their Instagram, all the pictures will be deleted because they lost confidence. I have friends who will go for months posting selfies of themselves and they will be really edited. ![]() Julia Peters, 22, from Leicestershire: ‘I have friends who lose confidence and delete their photos’ This creates the idea that someone is perfect as they have loads of likes and followers, but that is not always the case. I think Instagram is the worst because it’s not live, so you can change pictures once you have posted them and you can buy followers. There is always an unspoken feeling that you need to be better than other people and that creates a negative environment. They can use Photoshop and can change their appearance, and that sets people up to fail as they think they should look like that, but it’s not a realistic image. But everyone portrays their “best self” on social media and it’s not accurate. Girls are on social media all the time and follow celebrities and friends. ![]() In reality, everyone is perfect just the way they are. My sister is stunning, so I look at her and think: I need to look like her. In large strikes against the textile manufacturers in 19, women workers played prominent roles.As a young girl, I do feel I need to be perfect and compare myself to others all the time. Thousands of immigrants from many other countries settled in Lowell in the decades after the Civil War, yet women remained a major part of the Lowell’s textile workforce. The number of Irish employed in Lowell’s mills rose dramatically in the 1840s, as Irish men and women fled their faminestricken land. Few strikes succeeded, however, and Lowell’s workforce remained largely unorganized.Īdding to the difficulties of organizing Lowell’s operatives was the changing ethnic composition of the workforce. In the 1840s, female labor reformers banded together to promote the ten-hour day, in the face of strong corporate opposition. Female workers struck twice in the 1830s. Although the city’s corporations threatened labor reformers with firing or blacklisting, many mill girls protested wage cuts and working conditions. Lowell’s textile corporations paid higher wages than those in other textile cities, but work was arduous and conditions were frequently unhealthy. Typically, mill girls were employed for nine to ten months of the year, and many left the factories during part of the summer to visit back home.Ī weaver stands at a loom on a factory floor Most textile workers toiled for 12 to 14 hours a day and half a day on Saturdays the mills were closed on Sundays. ![]() The clanging factory bell summoned operatives to and from the mill, constantly reminding them that their days were structured around work. Male and female workers were expected to observe the Sabbath, and temperance was strongly encouraged. In the boardinghouses, the keepers enforced curfews and strict codes of conduct. Within the factory, overseers were responsible for maintaining work discipline and meeting production schedules. The men who ran the corporations and managed the mills sought to regulate the moral conduct and social behavior of their workforce. Most pronounced was the control corporations exerted over the lives of their workers. An illustration of the Boott Cotton Mills in the 1850sįor most young women, Lowell’s social and economic opportunities existed within the limits imposed by the powerful textile corporations.
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