- Barbara Tucker: When you're recruiting family labor and people are reluctant to go into this new lifestyle, it had to be frightening. How do you get them to go into a factory? Remember, the fathers would not go. The mothers would not go either into and work in the factory. You have to attract that family to that factory and ease that transition between an agricultural and an industrial way of life. What better way to do it than to give them something they could understand - a New England village.