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The great menace to society from home work is not so much a danger of transmitting disease, although this is constant, as it is the menace which results from exploited childhood and womanhood. It is impossible to guard children from being exploited in their homes.

— Rose Schneiderman Under What Conditions Women Work (1913)

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Many in the audience were tired of resolutions being passed but never acted upon.

All for One (1967)

We have in recent years experienced a tremendous awakening who have risen up and struck against conditions.

Under What Conditions Women Work (1913)

If the women of leisure and opportunity would do as that young and extraordinary woman Carala Voerishoffer did we would more quickly get results.

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The girls and women by their meetings and discussions come to understand and sympathize with each other, and more and more easily they act together..

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No amount of money is saved to break strikes and every possible means are used to continue to pay young women such wages upon which it is almost impossible for them to live.

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