https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Grace+Abbott&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&sort_dir=a&output=atom2024-03-29T11:29:10+00:00Omekahttps://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/85 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.
Header: Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, Washington, D.C.
"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."]]>2021-03-07T13:15:24+00:00
Title
Standards for the Employment of Women in Work on War Supplies as submitted to the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense
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A report from the Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense.
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.
Header: Committee on Women in Industry of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, Washington, D.C.
"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."
Creator
Committee on Women in Industry. Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense.
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.”
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