Attitude Quote by Florence Kelley

Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into…

— Clara Zetkin

“Women’s role in the development of trade unions has been significant and yet underrecognised.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

“When people talk about the ‘feminization of labor’, then, their discourse is often double-edged. The phrase is at once descriptive (work is generally more…

— Nina Power

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

“Nevertheless, as Marx notes, it is only when women enter work ‘outside the sphere of the domestic economy’ that transformations in relations between the…

— Nina Power

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong…

— Warren Beatty

There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.

— Peggy Johnson

Working women went through a time when they believed that.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from…

— Clara Zetkin

The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced,…

— Linda Grant

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an…

— Leon Jouhaux