this woman, florence kelley, is actually the daughter of a very famous industrialist congressman from pennsylvania, a guy named pig iron kelley. i always liked pig iron because he was not necessarily the brightest crayon in the box, but he was good at listening to other people said. if you want to know what people thought, you can just read pig iron, because he kind of makes a synopsis. the daughter has issues of her own that she is trying to address in american society. she has been at hull house, she has seen the terrible conditions especially of garment workers, and she wanted to take that on. how do women take on industrialization? by the late 19th century, women can take on industrialization as consumers. florence kelley and this woman here begin to advance the idea that women can ameliorate the extraordinarily bad conditions of industrialization. sweatshops, terrible pay, terrible conditions, by refusing to buy products that are made in sweatshops. they organize eventually, in 1891, the national consumers league. they would say, we will not buy clothing or goats made under unsaf

this woman, florence kelley, is actually the daughter of a very famous industrialist congressman from pennsylvania, a guy named pig iron kelley, who is very important in the civil war. if anybody's interested, i always liked pig iron because he was not necessarily the brightest crayon in the box, but what he was really good at was listening to what everybody else said. if you wanted to know what people thought and you're in a hurry in the civil war, you can just read pig iron because he sort of synopsizes what everyone says. he's very involved in the republican party and industrialization. then he has this daughter. and she's got issues of her own that she wants to address in american society. she had been at hull house. she had seen the terrible conditions, especially of garment workers, and she wanted to take that on. she wanted to take on industrialization. but how do women take on industrialization? see, now they take on politics, social issues. by the late 19th century, women can take on industrialization as consumers. and florence kelley and josephine shaw lowell begin to advanc

among the people who lived there was florence kelley. florence kelly had lived previously at the house in chicago. she had become a factory inspector for the state of illinois. she came to new york. she moved into the henry street settlement and she worked on child labor, the eight-hour day for women, and working women's rights. she was the leader of the national consumers league. we have papers from the national consumers league at the library of congress. and we highlight one of the articles she wrote and published very much in his style, an expose on the issue of women and children in the labor force and their poor wages and lack of protection. this article was illustrated by a photograph lewis hine. he was hired to go undercover and do investigative reports. this is another riis-like activity. riis was doing the exposes of the slums. basically pioneering investigative reporting. hine went into factories and fields and took photographs that are now considered some of the most important documentary photographs of the 20th century. parti

among the people who lived there, florence kelley. previously at whole house in chicago. she had become a factory inspector for the state of illinois. she came to new york, she moved into the henry street settlement and she worked on child labor, it our a day for women and working women rights. she was a leader of the national consumer league. we have papers from the national consumer league at the library of congress and we highlight one of the articles she wrote and published. style.ch in riis an expose on the issue of women and children in the labor force. there poorly just and -- poor wages and lack of protection. the article -- we also have papers of the national child labor committee. hired by them to going to cover and basically do investigative reports. like is another riis- activity. riis was doing the exposes of the slums. hyne went into factories and fields and took photographs considered some of the most important documentary photograph of the 20th century. particularly of child labor. used up like reese had pictures of the children to show this to social refo

consumers league here at the library of congress and we highlighted one of the articles that florence kelley wrote and published very much in riis style and expose about the issues of women and children in the labor force and their poor wages, the lack of protection for hours. and this particular article was illustrated by a photograph by lewis hind. we have the papers of the national child labor committee and hind was hired by them to go undercover and basically do investigative reports. so this is another riis-like activity that riis was doing these exposes of the slums and basically pioneering investigative reporting and hind went into canneries and factories and also the fields and took photographs that are now considered some of the most important documentary photographs of the 20th century, particularly of child labor. and then he used them like riis used the pictures of the children of the slums in an earlier time to show as magic lantern slides to social reformers and to testify before congress and it did lead to major child labor legislation. >> well, one importance about this exhib

this woman, florence kelley, is actually the daughter of a very famous industrialist congressman from pennsylvania, a guy named pig iron kelley, who is very important in the civil war. i always liked pig iron because he was not necessarily the brightest crayon in the box, but what he was really good at was listening to what everybody else said. if you wanted to know what people thought and you're in a hurry in the civil war, you can just read pig iron because he sort of synopsizes what everyone says. he's very involved in the republican party and industrialization. then he has this daughter. and she's got issues of her own that she wants to address in american society. she had been at hull house. she had seen the terrible conditions, especially of garment workers, and she wanted to take that on. she wanted to take on industrialization. but how do women take on industrialization? see, now they take on politics, social issues. by the late 19th century, women can take on industrialization as consumers. and florence kelley and josephine shaw lowell begin to advance the idea that women can

and florence kelley and josephine shaw lowell begin to advance the idea that women can ameliorate theraordinarily bad conditions of industrialization, the sweat shops, the terrible pay, the terrible conditions, by refusing to buy products that are made in sweat shops. and they organize eventually in 1891 the national consumers league. and what they did is they would say we will not buy clothing or goods made under unsafe or unhealthy working conditions. and we demand as consumers, as mothers feeding our children, safe food and drink. we need to have the government guarantee these things for us. by virtue of the fact we're consumers, not virtue of the fact that every human being should have a right to these things, but because we are wives and mothers, and we deserve to have good things ourselves, but we also must protect the other mothers who are out there producing these things. well, if this is women taking on industrial society, i really only talked about the east, the north and the south here. but there's also the west. and the west is going to play a really important role for how