"The very fact that women now form about……" — Florence Kelley
"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."
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Florence Kelley
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10 Quotes by Florence Kelley
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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies…
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward…
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The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there…
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and…
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To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show…
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On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she…
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Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together…
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until…
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