The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners. — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility. — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he.… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
