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Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work : The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work The Rise of Women's Political Culture 18301900 Author:Kathryn Kish Sklar This masterful biography by 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 history of the United States during a period of transforming change when women worked to end the abuses of unregulated industrial capitalism. In the first of two v... more »olumes, Sklar describes how earlier generations set the stage for women`s centrality in the 1890s and depicts the first forty years of Florence Kelley`s life.« less