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Florence Kelley

American Activist

Born: Sep 12, 1859

Died: Feb 17, 1932

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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment. Florence Kelley

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard. Florence Kelley

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. Florence Kelley

Struggle Overcome Pressure Own Difficulty Other Additional Rates Maintain Wages Forever Any Hanging Just Workers Bodies Body Means Reasonable Skirts Downward Level Fatal Below

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home. Florence Kelley

Home Protection Power Heritage Other Brothers Abroad She Hand Off Sisters Polls Cut Interests Awarded Her Defend

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