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Consumers' League of New York City
An early Progressive Era reform group, this New York organization wrote with urgency about working conditions for women in shops, restaurants, hotels, and factories. Its publications offer a vivid window into campaigns for fair wages, shorter hours, and safer workplaces.
3 Audiobooks
Consumers' Cooperative Societies in New York State
by Consumers' League of New York City
Behind the scenes in a restaurant: A study of 1017 women restaurant employees
by Consumers' League of New York City
Behind the Scenes in a Hotel
by Consumers' League of New York City
About the author
Formed in 1891, the Consumers' League of New York City grew out of a report by Alice Woodbridge on the harsh conditions faced by women in retail work. A small group of reformers organized the league to push for better labor standards and to encourage the public to support businesses that treated workers more fairly.
The league became part of a broader movement for workplace reform in New York. Its records connect it to well-known reformers of the era, and Frances Perkins later worked in its New York office before becoming a major national figure in labor policy.
As an author, the league is best understood as a civic organization publishing investigations and advocacy material rather than as a single writer. Works associated with it, including studies of restaurant, hotel, and factory labor, focused on everyday working life and helped document the case for labor protections in the early twentieth century.