Florence Kelley

Florence Kelley (born September 12, 1859, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 17, 1932, Philadelphia) was an American social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States. Kelley graduated from Cornell University in 1882. After a year spent conducting evening classes for working women in Philadelphia, she traveled to Europe, where she attended the University of Zürich. There she came under the influence of European socialism;...