One of America's foremost historians of women tells the story of Florence Kelley, a leading reformer in the Progressive Era. The book is also a political histor

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"During the Progressive Era, a period of unprecedented ingenuity, women evangelists built the old time religion with brick and mortar, uniforms and automobiles,

In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. By bringing the factory or office home, homework challenges this division. Home to

A rich and detailed picture, across Britain and many other European countries, of the nature of women's factory work, the problems which arose and how women fac