Behind the Scenes in Candy Factories
Report
By: Consumers' League of New York
Date: March 1928
Source: Consumers' League of New York. Behind the Scenes in Candy Factories. New York: Consumers' League of New York, 1928. Reprinted in the Library of Congress American Memory Collection. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov (accessed January 29, 2003).
About the Author: Frances Perkins (1882–1965), who wrote this report for the Consumers' League of New York, was influenced by the investigative muckraking journalists Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis, and Upton Sinclair, along with her involvement in Jane Addams's Hull House. In 1910, she headed the National Consumers' League and successfully fought to shorten the work week for women to fifty-four hours. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her to head the Department of Labor—;the first woman in American...
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