What Women Might Do with the Ballot: The Abolition of Child Labor.
Kelley, Florence. Pamphlet: "What Women Might Do with the Ballot The Abolition of Child Labor.” New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [c. 1915].
Pamphlet: 5-1/4 x 7"; 8 pp.; printed light blue wrappers; illustrated with a halftone photograph; with the stamp of the Women’s Political Union at the front cover; else fine.
Florence Kelley (1859-1932), reformer and women’s rights advocate, is closely associated with Hull-House and the work of Jane Addams. Kelley sought to improve the working conditions of women and children and as the director of the National Consumer’s League worked for protective legislation on their behalf. Here Kelley canvasses damning statistics concerning child labor throughout the country and enumerates instances where laws intended to alleviate child labor conditions have been thwarted or obstructed by male legislators and jurists. In the end, "child labor can be abolished only when the women of every state are given equal authority…in the political, social and industrial life of this Republic.” (Franklin, p. 138)
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