How Did Florence Kelley's Campaign
against Sweatshops in Chicago in the 1890s Expand
Government Responsibility
for Industrial Working Conditions?
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Introduction
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1: "The Sweating System"
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2: "Chicago"
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3: "Home Shops"
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4: "Disease and Infection"
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5: "Protest of Labor: Mass Meeting Held to Denounce the Sweat Shops,"
19 February 1893
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6: Congressional Authorization of an Investigation, February 1892
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7: "Report of Inspection by Committee," Boston, Massachusetts, April 1892
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8: Testimony of Mrs. T.J. Morgan, February 1893
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9: Report by Mrs. T.J. Morgan, February 1893
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10: Florence Kelley's testimony on the Sweating System, February 1893
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11: Florence Kelley's recommended bill to the Investigation Committee, 1893
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12: "Compulsory Eight-Hour Law Impossible," 5 January 1893
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13: Factory and Workshop Bill of 1893
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14: Florence Kelley to Rand McNally and Co., 9 January 1894
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15: Opinion of the Supreme Court
of Illinois, Ritchie Vs.
The People, 18 March 1895
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16: 1894, "Filthy Shops," "Injurious Employments"
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17: 1894, "Prosecutions"
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18: 1894, "Recommendations"
Document 19: 1896,
"Recommendations Child Labor"
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20: 1896, "Factory and Workshop Law"
Image 1:
Hull-House with Butler Art Gallery
Image 2:
Elizabeth J. Morgan
Image 3:
The Lily, "Cheap Clothing -- The Slaves of the 'Sweaters,'" 20 April
1890
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