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Impatient crusader : Florence Kelley's life story / by Josephine Goldmark.
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Goldmark, Josephine, 1877-1950
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English
Published/Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1953.
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xii, 217 pages ; 24 cm
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Social workers
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United States
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Biography
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Women social reformers
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United States
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Biography
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Feminists
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United States
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Biography
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Social service
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Women
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Kelley, Florence 1859-1932
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Publisher
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Press
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Biographies
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collective biographies
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Summary note
Florence Kelley (1859-1932) fought to implement child labor laws, minimum wages, maximum working hours, industrial health control, prenatal care to lower maternal and infant mortality. She was among the late 19th and early 20th centuries militant women, including Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Lillian Wald and others, who have come to be called social reformers. Her close friend and fellow worker, Josephine Goldmark (1877-1950), tells a sympathetic yet richly detailed story of Florence Kelley’s energetic life and accomplishments. At the turn of the 20th century and afterward, the 12-hour workday and the 7-day workweek prevailed in many industries. The sweatshop was commonplace. In most states women and young girls worked long hours unregulated by law. Child labor, beginning at age 10 or 12, was the normal pattern for the poor. That such social evils have largely disappeared is due in large part to the insistent and impatient crusading of Florence Kelley as Chief Inspector of Factories for Illinois; at Hull House in Chicago and the Henry Street Settlement in New York; as General Secretary of the National Consumers League; to establish the U.S. Children’s Bureau; in the National Woman Suffrage Association, the National Child Labor Committee and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Florence nce Kelley worked with the law, especially with Boston lawyer Louis D. Brandeis, spent herself tirelessly in research to document the legal basis for shorter working hours for women, an investigation now famous as the “Brandeis Brief.” Indignant and eloquent, she stimulated the investigation of the use of radium in luminous paint, to end deaths from poisoning of dial painters in watch factories.
Notes
Includes index.
Ed. by Elizabeth Brandeis.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Home and heritage
Intellectual ferment
Move to Hull House
Mrs. Kelley enforces the new law
Consumers organize for action
Henry Street and summers in Maine
Crusade against child labor
Julia Lathrop and the Children's Bureau
Federal help for mothers and babies
Fight for a Federal Child Labor Law
Industry in the tenements
Floor under wages
Brandeis Brief
More conflict in the courts
Mrs. Kelley opposes the Woman's Party
Dial-painters' story
Florence Kelley in retrospect.
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52012408
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255973
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