Waged Industrial Work
Pregnant woman and young girl working in a mill.
Lewis Wickes Hine, Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Woman was “with child
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workers were fired. Other workers went on strike in response.
The Mexican girls working in the Acme laundry on East Missouri street went out on strike Monday morning to the number of nearly 40, the girls say, because F. B. Fletcher, president and manager
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Waged Work and Protective Laws
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Summary
United States Supreme Court
MULLER v. STATE OF OREGON, (1908)
No. 107
Argued: January 15, 1908
Decided
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school room where 1,100 illiterates were taught to read and write; a large lobby for writing letters and playing games; and towards the close of the work, a wet canteen, which served hot chocolate, lemonade and cakes to the soldiers.
The largest YMCA hut
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impossible for them to be idle and respected.
Most places of employment consider Black women to be the least desirable type of employee, but if Black women do not work they are looked down upon.
While only a few colored women are fortunate enough to gain
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from neighbors and hid them in her attic. She was fascinated with Karl Marx and communism. By the time she was a teenager, Clara had formed her own beliefs about the challenges of working-class people.
When Clara was 17, her parents decided to move to
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world.
With her father’s encouragement, Jane enrolled at the prestigious Rockford Female Seminary at the age of 17. The school’s curriculum was deeply shaped by Christianity and encouraged women to pursue religious and missionary work. Although Jane was
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work hard at a young age. In high school, she excelled in math, science, and foreign languages. She also managed accounting and inventory for her parents’ grocery store. After graduation, her family could not afford to send her to college. Ellen did not
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the poor conditions of the school. She did not feel that teaching was doing enough to change the lives of her students, so she returned to Laredo to work with her father and brothers on La Crónica. As a writer and publisher for the family newspaper
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life. Outside the home, both paid and voluntary work was widely available. Volunteers sent care packages overseas, raised money, and organized home efforts. Paid workers toiled in factories, farms, and offices—often replacing men who went to the front
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