Why were people in the 1820's attracted to factory work?

a lot of the people who worked at factories were attracted to them, because most of them were immigrants who were searching jobs and religious freedom

Explanation:

Ninety percent of the American people in the 1820s still lived and worked on farms, and many urban residents were skilled artisans who were not likely to flock to factory jobs. The beginnings of an industrial labor supply came instead from the transformation of American agriculture in the nineteenth century. In the Northeast, and especially in New England, where poor land had always placed harsh limits on farm productivity, rural people began leaving the land to work in the factories. Two systems of recruitment emerged to bring this new labor supply to the expanding textile mills. One, common in the mid-Atlantic states, brought whole families from the farm to the mill. The second system, common in Massachusetts, enlisted young women (the Lowell or Waltham system). Many of these women worked for several years in the factories, saved their wages, and returned home to marry and raise children. Others married men they met in the factories or in town and remained part of the industrial world. Labor conditions in these early years of the factory system were significantly better than those in English industry. The employment of young children created undeniable hardships. Immigrants became increasingly desirable to work in factories because they were willing to take the menial jobs that other Americans refused to take