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Florence Kelley
Florence helped persuade the Illinois legislature to prohibit child labor and to limit the number of hours women could work. She also helped organize National Child Labor commited to persuad state legislature to pass laws against employing young children in 1904. She helped lobby the Oregon legislature to pass a law limiting female laundry workers to 10-hour days in 1903. -
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
ILGWU sought to unionize workers employed in sewing shop. In 1909, workers at three different New York factories walked off their job and the workers sought the ILGWU to call a strike. Thousands of workers headed the unions call and walked off their jobs o demand that their companies recognized the ILGWU as their union. -
Ida Tarbell
Born in 1857 and the daughter of an independent oil producer. She hated the Standard Oil Company because it bankrupted her father's business. She entered Allegheny College in 1876 as the only female in her class and writting a popular searis for McClures in 1890. -
Female Labor
7.5 million women were imployed in 1910.Half of the women who worked in such jobs as factory workers, store clerks, and laundresses earned less than $6 a week. They often faced significant bariers when they tried to increase their income. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
500 employes -most of them young Jewish or Italion immigrant women- were completing their six days' work week when the fire erupted in a rag bin. The 8 floor of the 10 story building was ablazed and it was impossible to escaped some women tried to escape some women tried to take freight elevator to safety, but it jammed as women on higher floors jumped down the elevator shaft to flee the flame. Desperate for a way out, 60 workers leaped from the levator shaft to their death.
