Standards for the Employment of Women in Work on War Supplies as submitted to the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense
A report from the Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense. <br /><br />These standards include recommendations on tenement house work, child labor, protection of mothers, wages, hours, seats, extra heavy and extra hazardous occupations, dangerous trades, heavy lifting, and exposure to heat and cold. <br /><br />Header: Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, Washington, D.C.<br /><br />"Your Committee on Women in Industry urges the adoption of the following standards for work done for the Government in order to secure the fullest possible protection for women wage-earners."
Committee on Women in Industry. Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense.
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
Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense
1918
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/mothers-aid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mother's Aid</a>, Social Welfare History Project
What Did Miss Abbott Really Say? [NCLC pamphlet]
A pamphlet issued by the National Child Labor Committee to present testimony by Grace Abbott, former head of the United States Children’s Bureau, before the House Judiciary Committee on February 15, 1924. The pamphlet was issued in order to counter claims regarding her testimony made in a legal brief written in 1934 by William D. Guthrie, “The Child Labor Amendment: Argument in Opposition to Ratification.”
National Child Labor Committee
<a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/resources/680">Gertrude Zimand papers</a>. <a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/162010">Articles and Studies, 1924-1965</a>. <a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/162010">Box: 2, Folder: 17</a>. Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
1934
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Child+Labor+Amendment" target="_blank" title="Items related to the Child Labor Amendment" rel="noreferrer noopener">Child Labor Amendment</a><span>, Social Welfare History Image Portal</span><br /><span>"</span><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/child-welfarechild-labor/a-needed-amendment-to-restrict-child-labor/" target="_blank" title="Article from The Nation, January 1934" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Needed Amendment To Restrict Child Labor</a><span>" </span><em>The Nation. </em><span>January, 1934. Social Welfare History Project</span><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/child-welfarechild-labor/child-labor/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Child Labor</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project <br /></span><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/organizations/childrens-bureau/abbott-grace/" target="_blank" title="Grace Abbot" rel="noreferrer noopener">Grace Abbott</a>, Social Welfare History Project