aug 30, 1902 - National Consumers League est (1899)

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Wedges into fed bureaucracy → female reformers have national stage for social investigation and advocacy;

Florence Kelley became Illinois’s first chief factory inspector, leading advocate for improved factory conditions, former resident of Hull House, Took control of National Consumers League (1899), mobilized female consumers to pressure for laws safeguarding women and children in workplace

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