I. Introduction

• •Kelley as example of new opportunities for women resulting from the increasing emphasis on experts in government



• •Pioneer in securing state laws to protect women workers

II. Problems of industrialization

• •Transition from hand craftsmanship to unskilled factory work



• •Factory owners seek cheap labor
• •1880-1900 number of women workers up from 2.6 to 8.6 million



• •Working conditions
• •Should there be special laws to protect women?

III. Kelley's career

• •Youth



• •Chicago's Hull House and Jane Addams



• •Gov. John Peter Altgeld of Illinois (1893-1897)



• •National Consumers' League (1898-1932)



• •Muller v. Oregon (1908)



• •NAACP (1909)



• •Federal Children's Bureau (1912)



• •Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916-1918)



• •19^th Amendment to U.S. Constitution
• •Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)
• •Alice Paul and National Women's Party (1921)

IV. Conclusion

• •Temporary failure but long term success
• •New Deal
• •West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
• •Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

• •Rise of professional social work



• •Resistance of state and federal governments to protective laws for women
• •Creation of pressure groups (National Consumers' League)
• •Innovative use of federal courts (Muller v. Oregon)
• •Achievement of right to vote only the beginning