Studies in Industrial Physiology: Fatigue in Relation to Working Capacity….Ten-Hour Plant.
[Labor]. Goldmark, Josephine and Mary D. Hopkins. Studies in Industrial Physiology: Fatigue in Relation to Working Capacity. 1. Comparison of an Eight-Hour Plant and a Ten-Hour Plant. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1920.
8vo; 213 pp.; with numerous tables, charts, and diagrams; original printed blue-green wrappers; wrappers slightly soiled on front; ex-library with very light library stamp on upper corner of front cover; else very good.
First Edition. Josephine Clark Goldmark (1877-1950), social investigator, came from a well-to-do Jewish family. Her father, a physician and research chemist who had been active in the Austrian Revolution of 1848 before immigrating to the US, died in 1881, leaving his family in comfortable circumstances. His place in the family was partly taken by Felix Adler, founder of the Society for Ethical Culture who had married Josephine’s older sister, Helen, in 1880. Another sister married Louis D. Brandeis. Josephine graduated Bryn Mawr in 1898 and then did graduate work at Barnard College. In the early 1900’s Josephine met Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers League, with whom she formed a life-long association. From her first publication, Child Labor Legislation Handbook, published in 1907, Miss Goldmark compiled or wrote a number of surveys or briefs for the government and was influential in child labor legislation, labor legislation for shorter hours, welfare of laborers, public health, higher standards for nurses, and other reforms. In fact, her brother-in-law, Justice Louis D. Brandeis used data she amassed in preparing his famous “Brandeis Briefs.” A recognized expert in the field, she was appointed to investigate the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire of 1911. Her career extended from the Progressive Era to the New Deal and won her the friendship of Julia Lathrop, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others who “shared her belief that an informed public opinion was the prerequisite of all social reform.” Self-effacing, she had a profound influence in the field, but was little knows to those outside it. An important American Labor reformer’s early work. (NAW II, pp. 59-61)
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