Abstract
Believing industrial conditions to be especially onerous for working women, reformers in the Progressive Era endeavored to secure labor legislation to protect female wage earners. Among the most important measures they proposed were laws to limit working hours and to raise wages. This study focuses on Illinois where efforts to secure protective labor legislation for women met with only minimal success. It examines the ideas mobilized for and against these reforms in an effort to discover more fully the period's reform mentality.
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