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Selected Letters Of Florence Kelley 1869
Kelley, Florence. Ed(S): Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Palmer, Beverly Wilson
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Hardback. First-hand accounts of one woman's fight to improve working conditions for Americans in the early twentieth century Editor(s): Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Palmer, Beverly Wilson. Num Pages: 520 pages, 35 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGHA; BJ; JFF; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1021.
As head of the National Consumers' League from its founding in 1899 until her death in 1932, Florence Kelley led campaigns that reshaped the conditions under which goods were produced in the United States. Her efforts produced the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, as well as laws providing for an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage. She mobilized women's organizations to support the passage of the first federal health legislation for women and children in 1921, and she headed the crusade against child labor between 1890 and 1930. An ally of W.E.B. Du Bois, she was a founding ... Read more
As head of the National Consumers' League from its founding in 1899 until her death in 1932, Florence Kelley led campaigns that reshaped the conditions under which goods were produced in the United States. Her efforts produced the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, as well as laws providing for an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage. She mobilized women's organizations to support the passage of the first federal health legislation for women and children in 1921, and she headed the crusade against child labor between 1890 and 1930. An ally of W.E.B. Du Bois, she was a founding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252034046
SKU
V9780252034046
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About Kelley, Florence. Ed(S): Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Palmer, Beverly Wilson
Kathryn Kish Sklar is a distinguished professor of history at SUNY, Binghamton and coeditor of the online journal and database Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. She is the author of Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 and other books in the history of American women. Beverly Wilson Palmer is ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Letters Of Florence Kelley 1869
"This comprehensive edition ... offers readers a true understanding of Kelly's thought and activism. . . . A valuable addition to the historical canon. Recommended."
Choice "An important book for general readers and scholars alike. Sklar and Palmer provide an excellent account of the unifying themes of Florence Kelley's lifelong commitments to social legislation in general and women and children in ... Read more
Choice "An important book for general readers and scholars alike. Sklar and Palmer provide an excellent account of the unifying themes of Florence Kelley's lifelong commitments to social legislation in general and women and children in ... Read more