To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

- Florence Kelley

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wag…

- Florence Kelley

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means…

- Florence Kelley

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in thei…

- Florence Kelley

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic…

- Florence Kelley