Florence Kelly And Her Social Role In The United States Of America (1859-1932)

Abstract

Florence Kelly was an American social and political reformer who fought for government regulation to protect working women and children. She identified child labor in the United States of America and was the first female factory inspector in the United States of America. Her efforts contributed greatly to the establishment of the American Children’s Bureau in 1912.

She devoted her life to social reform in the United States of America. She worked to end many social problems, including child labor and racial discrimination. Her efforts against child sweatshops and for minimum wages, the eight-hour workday, children's rights, and women's right to vote. Her vision and energy contributed much to reformulating government responsibility for... Human welfare in the United States of America during that period influenced many social movements in the United States of America.

This paper takes a look at the early life of Florence Kelly, before she became a social activist for progressive reform. Her experience sheds light on social agency within specific discourses and specific social positions. In the long history of the struggle against child labor in the United States of America, she was the person who made the most consistent and effective contribution starting from the premise that children belong in schools, not in factories, mills, and mines. She devoted most of her life to an ongoing struggle for legislation prohibiting the employment of children under the age of sixteen, and for compulsory education until that age.