Modern Industry in Relation to the Family, Health, Education, Morality

di Florence Kelley (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Florence Kelley (1859-1932) was a committed socialist and political reformer who campaigned against child labour in the United States. In 1899 she became the leader of the National Consumers' League, an anti-sweatshop and pro-minimum wage pressure group which she supported until her death. This volume, first published in 1914, describes her views on the problems facing American society due to the expansion of industry. Kelley discusses the negative effects of rapid industrialisation on the American urban working class, in terms of the effects on the family, on the health of workers, on the education of the working class; and discusses the economic 'morality' of controlling the means of production. She also suggests possible legislation to mitigate these problems, some of which later passed into federal law. This volume provides a vivid description of the lives of America's urban working class and illustrates the extent of contemporary industrialisation in America.

• Autore: Florence Kelley
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 158 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 210 gr.
• EAN: 9781108030205

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