Florence Kelley Quotes

• This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

  Florence Kelley

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• Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

  Florence Kelley

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  Tags in Conditions, Maintain, Together

• The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  Florence Kelley

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• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Women, Manufacture, Fact

• On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.

  Florence Kelley

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Interests, Protection

• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  Florence Kelley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficulty, Struggle, Forever

• In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

  Florence Kelley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economic, Presence

• 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 to have the same chance of employment.

   

  Florence Kelley

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  Tags in Employment, Better, Good

• 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 their trades.

  Florence Kelley

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Revolution, Working

Florence Kelley (9)

Birth:	12th September, 1859
Death:	17th February, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Social Reformer

About

Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an American activist, author, and social reformer. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today. From its founding in 1899, she served as the first general secretary of the National Consumers League. She was a member of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, an activist for woman suffrage and African-American civil rights. She graduated from Cornell University in 1882. She studied at the University of Zurich. She earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1895. She wrote several books include: Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation and Modern industry in relation to the family, health, education, morality.

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