Women And The Fight For Reform

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many women reformers focused on
the need for state laws to restrict child labor. Young children from poor
families had to work late hours in mines and mills and were exploited by
plant managers. No state laws prevented the children from being
overworked or abused.
One of the first to challenge the exploitation of orphaned or
dependent children was Sophie Loeb, a Jewish immigrant from Russia Once
her father was deceased, she watched the desperation of her mother as the
family slipped into poverty. As a journalist, Loeb campaigned for
window's pensions when this was still a new idea.
Helen Stuart Campbell, born in 1839 in New York, began her public
career as an author of children's books. Then she used novels to expose
slim life's damaging effect on women. In 1859 she wrote a novel about two
women who break from their dependence on men and chart new lives.
Campbell also wrote how easy it was fir women's lives to be ruined by
poverty and despair. Some women ...

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