Grace Abbott

Activist

1878-11-17

Books by Grace Abbott

The immigrant and the community
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From relief to social security
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The Immigrant and Coal Mining Communities of Illinois
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Quotes by Grace Abbott

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
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Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
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