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A book titled Among [this city's workers] was written by Lucy Larcom, whose autobiography recounts her move here from Beverly Farms. The LFLRA, a labor union in this city, included activist Sarah Bagley, who published the Offering. This city was founded by and named for an industrialist partly named Francis Cabot, who patented a power loom. The Rhode Island system was succeeded by a system named for (*) Waltham and this city, which hired young people between 15 and 35 (10[1])to work in centralized, strictly supervised factories. This city's system improved upon Samuel Slater's model by hiring young women known as its "mill girls." For 10 points, the "cradle of the American Industrial Revolution" was what Massachusetts town? ■END■

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