Do You Know Where Your Clothes Are Washed? A Bulletin on Laundry Conditions in New York City
Do You Know Where Your Clothes Are Washed? A Bulletin on Laundry Conditions in New York City. Issued by The Consumers' League of the City of New York. This bulletin addresses the physical conditions, hours, and wages of laundries in New York City.<br /><br />"When Maggie Corbett, a fifteen year old girl, testified before the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration that she had worked in a public laundry for more than two years, and that she had often worked 14 or 15 hours in one day in a hot, steam-filled room, every housewife who read the newspapers was horrified that such a state of affairs could exist in an industry so closely connected with her own household economy."
Consumers' League of the City of New York.
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Consumers' League of the City of New York.
[1912]
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more:<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/child-welfarechild-labor/child-labor-in-new-york-city/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Child Labor in New York City Tenements</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Campaigning against Industrial Evils
Title printed across interior pages, "A Resume of the Work of the Consumers' League of the City of New York from January 1, 1914 to October 1, 1914"<br /><br />A pamphlet detailing the work and investigatory and legislative impact of the Consumers' League of the City of New York between January 1, 1914 to October 1, 1914.<br /><br /> "The Consumers' League believes that the producing world is only the servant of the consuming world, and that the final direction of industry lies with the consumer."<br /><br />
Consumers' League of the City of New York.
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Consumers' League of the City of New York.
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Learn more:<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/company-unions-f-l/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Company Unions and the American Federation of Labor (AFL)</a>, Social Welfare History Project
The Sheppard-Towner Bill: For the Protection of Maternity and Infancy
A pamphlet in support of the Sheppard-Towner Bill (S. 1039, H. R. 2366) for the Protection of Maternity and Infancy. This bill "permits the formation of an advisory committee consisting of the Commissioner of Education, the Surgeon-General of the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Secretary of Agriculture" to improve "instruction in the hygiene of maternity and infancy through public health nurses, consultation centers, and other suitable methods." The pamphlet outlines what the bill is, what it is not, what it costs, and why it is necessary.
Children's Bureau
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
U.S. Department of Labor
c. 1921
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/child-welfarechild-labor/childrens-bureau-a-brief-history-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Children's Bureau - A Brief History & Resources</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/federal/lathrop-julia-clifford/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Julia Clifford Lathrop (1858-1932)</a>: First Chief of the Children’s Bureau and Advocate for Enactment of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921
Wages of Saleswomen: What the United States Government Says and What the Consumers' League Knows
This pamphlet by the Consumers' League is an analysis of the 1907-1910 Bureau of Labor report on the condition of woman and child wage earners in the United States. Specifically, this pamphlet looks into the 391 girls who worked in New York City's department stores.
Consumers' League
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
J J O'BRIEN & SON
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more:<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/child-welfarechild-labor/child-labor-in-new-york-city/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Child Labor in New York City</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Casualties of Child Labor: Ten Children Illegally Employed in Pennsylvania and What Happened to Them
Pamphlet issued by the Consumers' League of Eastern Pennsylvania as an exposé of workplace accidents involving children. The authors make an appeal to regulate child labor, and “To break down the conspiracy of silence” (p. 11) about illegal child employment. <br /><br /> The cover summarizes the cases discussed in the pamphlet:<br /><br /> "Two killed – one smothered to death and one blown to pieces<br /> Six seriously injured – hands crushed, fingers amputated, leg mangled<br /> Two of the injured permanently incapacited<br /> Two injured more or less seriously”
De Lima, Agnes <br />McConnell, Beatrice, 1894-1985
<a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/resources/2432">Paul U. Kellogg papers</a>. <a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/505670">Child Labor Amendment, 1923-1927</a>. <a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/505670">Box: 22, Folder: 197.</a> Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
Consumers' League of Eastern Pennsylvania
1924 December
Social Welfare History Archive, University of Minnesota Libraries
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