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Florence Kelley & Jane Addams 

JUSTIFICATIONS 

  • Addams said that the industrial revolution had made it generally impossible for poor people to work their way out of poverty (Schwartz) 

APPROACHES OF EACH

  • Kelley was more focused on the working conditions for women and children; she tried to pass laws to improve these conditions and traveled around, lecturing people on what was happenning in factories (Bienen)

  • Addams was focused on caring for people when they were outside of the factory; she started Hull House (explained below) which helped and housed poor factory workers, mainly immigrants (Johnson)

  • Addams also argued for maximum-hour laws limiting the workday, unemployment insurance, and regulations designed to ensure the safety of factories and tenements (Bienen)

  • Addams and Kelley took part in running Hull House--"Hull House was the headquarters for ambitious plans to clean up and close the sweatshops, provide universal primary education, and teach literacy in English to the cascades of recent immigrants from Russia, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, and Bohemia who came to Chicago to work and begin a new life". (Bienen)

ADOPTED REFORMS

  • It is clear that there were laws passed against child labor and there were laws regarding improved working conditions

CHILD LABOR LAW 

  • When Kelley joined the staff at Hull House, her job was to go around the area and check out the working conditions in the factory and make a report; she found that kids as young as 2 and 3 were working in factories!

  •  Her report of this survey, along with other following studies, was showed to the state... this resulted in the Illinois State Legislature passing the first factory law prohibiting employment of children under age 14. (New World Encyclopedia)

EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

  • When Kelley was a child, she witnessed young boys working in the factory because her father, a powerful political man, would give her midnight tours of the factories. Kelley saw the awful conditions they worked in and it fueled her passion to make conditions in factories better (Sklar)

    • ​Kelley's young impressions of the IR influenced her and gave her justification for trying to pass child labor and women labor laws

  • Addams was an immigrant and she knew that immigrants were not treated well during the IR, this personal connection made her want to help those who couldn't support themselves because they spent all their time at the factories trying to make ends meet (Johnson)

Hull House

Chicago, IL

REFORMS

  • Kelley: better working conditions for women especially and child labor—law passed against it

SUCCESS? YES!

  • Kelley helped pass multiple laws that stopped child labor/ the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (this act basicaly made it illegal for food that was unhealthy to be branded as healthy) and laws regulating hours and establishing minimum wages (New World Encyclopedia) 

  • Addams helped the immigrants who were poor because all they did was work in the factory; through the Hull House she provided them with child care, educational courses, an art gallery, a public kitchen and several other social programs as the program itself grew (Biography.com Editors).

Citations:

  • Bienen, Leigh. "Florence Kelley--Arrival at Hull House." NorthWestern. 

     NorthWestern, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. 

     <http://florencekelley.northwestern.edu/florence/arrival/>. 

     Networks, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. <http://www.biography.com/people/ 

     jane-addams-9176298>. 

  • Lewis, Jone Johnson. "Jane Addams: Settlement House Pioneer, Peace Prize 

     Winner." About Education. About.com, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. 

     <http://womenshistory.about.com/od/addamsjane/p/jane_addams.htm>. 

  • Sklar, Kathryn Kish. (1995). Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Sklar)

  • Schwartz, Joel. "Flawed Reformer." Philanthropy Roundtable. Philanthropy 

     Roundtable 2015, May 2002. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. 

     <http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/excellence_in_philanthropy/

     flawed_reformer>. 

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