Florence Kelley's Struggle For Child Labor
Florence Kelley
Florence Kelley was an American social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. In 1876, she entered Cornell University but her poor health kept her from graduating until 6 years later. She then studied at the University of Zurich where women were permitted to obtain postgraduate degrees and where she applied her developed passions for Socialism.
Kelley married a Polish-Russian physician, Lazare Wischnewetzky, and they had 3 children. Their marriage eventually deteriorated and she fled with their children to Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago to escape her mentally unstable and violent husband. For the next eight years she lived and worked with Hull House
Florence Kelley was an American social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. In 1876, she entered Cornell University but her poor health kept her from graduating until 6 years later. She then studied at the University of Zurich where women were permitted to obtain postgraduate degrees and where she applied her developed passions for Socialism.
Kelley married a Polish-Russian physician, Lazare Wischnewetzky, and they had 3 children. Their marriage eventually deteriorated and she fled with their children to Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago to escape her mentally unstable and violent husband. For the next eight years she lived and worked with Hull House