Lewiston Mill Regulations
http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2images/act9/Lew_rules.html

Timetable of the Lowell Mills
http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2images/act9/time_tbl.html

Plantation Management, DeBow's, xiv (February 1853): 177-8.
http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/deBow.html

Plantation Rules, from Ulrich Phillips, ed., Plantation and Frontier, Volume 1 (New York: Burt Franklin, 1910)
http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/pRules.html

Step Two. Compare the following for the plantation and the factory.

1. The way time is organized.

2. The system of rewards and punishments.

3. The terms, hours and conditions of work.

4. The means of control and supervision.

5. Provisions for the care and welfare of the workforce.

6. The freedoms/restrictions of the workforce.

7. The kinds of behavior and values these rules seek to promote in the workforce.

8. The audience for each set of rules (Who are the rules addressed to?).

(For each numbered item, you will complete a worksheet with two columns: one for the plantation; the other for the factory. Click here for the worksheet. Print the worksheet).

Step Three. In small groups, compare your findings. What similarities do you find? Differences? How do you account for these differences and similarities? What conclusions do you draw.

Step Four. What do you consider the most important similarity? The most import difference? What are the most important conclusions you from this comparison? Post your answer, as an individual, to these questions on the discussion board

Step Five. Read the posts of classmates. Respond (constructively) to at least one post with which you have some differences or which stretched you to re-think some of your conclusions.

Step Six. Face-to-face class discussion about our findings and conclusions.