OVERSEER’S OFFICE EXHIBIT

Overseers managed the workers in each workspace. Most factory floors had an overseer’s office located at one end of each big production room. The offices had glass walls, so that the overseers could watch over the workers from the comfort (and relative quiet) of their office. One common source of friction: for many years overseers often were from different ethnic backgrounds than the majority of the factory hands on their floor, or were men supervising a majority female workforce. At the Mill Museum, we set up an Overseer’s Office Exhibit at one end of the Factory Floor Exhibit in the Jonathan Dugan Building.