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Monday, February 28, 2014
Vol XCIII, No. 311
Florence Kelley
National Consumers League
1859~1932
Child labor
During the late 19th century's Progressive Era, two America's leading social reformers Jane Addams and Josephine Lowell found this league.
William D. Kelley.
Toured glass factories.
Fought to make child labor illegal.
Founding Principles: Working conditions we accept for our fellow citizens should be reflected by our purchases, and that consumers should demand safety and reliability from the goods and services they buy.
Sought to give children the right of education.
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Hull House
"To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility."
From 1891~1899, Kelley lived at the Hull House.
Jane Addams called Kelley "the toughest customer in the reform riot, the finest rough-and-tumble fighter for the good life for others, that Hull House ever knew."
America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams
Florence Kelley's achievements in National Consumers League
The case which sought to overturn limits to the hours female workers could work in non-hazardous prefessions.
Under the direction of its first general secretary, Florence Kelley, the National Consumer's League exposed child labor and other scandalous working conditions.
The Sterling Discrimination Bill
- issue a White Label designating products made under fair working conditions.
- protect in home workers.
- promote the Meat inspection Act of 1904 and the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
- write and then champion state minimum wage laws for women.
- defend and convince the US Supreme Court to uphold a 10-hour work day law in the landmark Muller v. Oregon case of 1908
- advocate for creation of a federal Children's Bureau and federal child labor restrictions.
Muller v. Oregon
In 1931, studied the federal patterns of distribution of funds for education.
Noticed lots of inequitable distributions for White schools as opposed to Black schools.
Created "The sterling Discrimination Bill", which was an attack against the Sterling Towner Bill.
She and W.E.B DuBois add the language that guaranteed equitable distribution of funding regardless of race.