1 gen 1899 anni - National Consumers' League founded

Descrizione:

National Consumer's League(NCL): A national progressive organization that encouraged women, through their shopping decisions, to support fair wages and working conditions for industrial laborers.

The impact of The Jungle showed how urban reformers could affect national politics. Josephine Shaw Lowell, a Civil War widow from a prominent family, spent years struggling to aid poverty-stricken individuals in New York City. By 1890, she concluded that charity was not enough: she helped found the New York Consumers’ League to improve wages and working conditions for female store clerks. The league encouraged shoppers to patronize only stores where wages and working conditions were known to be fair. By 1899, the organization had become the National Consumers’ League (NCL). At its head stood the outspoken and skillful Florence Kelley, a Hull House worker and former chief factory inspector of Illinois. Kelley believed that only government oversight could protect exploited workers. Under her crusading leadership, the NCL became one of the most powerful progressive organizations advocating worker protection laws.

Aggiunto al nastro di tempo:

Data: