Grace Abbott
(1878-1939)

American Social Worker & Child Labor Reformer
Director, Children’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
1917–1934

birthdate: November 17
birthplace: Grand Island, Nebraska

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QUOTES

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.

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.