This table is featured in the exhibit "From Roses to Raises," section: "The Lawrence Bread and Roses Strike (1912)"
Wages paid by Lawrence Worsted mills to foreign-born adult workers, 1909
Two charts compare the nationality of men workers and their average weekly pay with the nationality and average weekly pay of women workers.
The first chart provides the nationality of men workers and their average weekly pay.
- English $11.39
- German $11.17
- French $11.07
- Irish $10.21
- Russian $8.59
- Polish $8.01
- Lithuanian $7.82
- S. Italian $6.84
- Combined* $9.16
The first chart provides the nationality of women workers and their average weekly pay.
- English $8.39
- German $9.53
- French $9.32
- Irish $8.24
- Russian $7.24
- Polish $7.10
- Lithuanian $7.14
- S. Italian $6.39
- Combined* $8.11
Data presented in Ardis Cameron, Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860–1912 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993), 120.
*The combined data is the overall average weekly wage for immigrant workers at Worsted Mills; it includes wage information from other nationalities that did not have corresponding data for the other listed gender.