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.
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Birth: | 17th November, 1878 |
Death: | 19th June, 1939 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Social Worker, Teacher |
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Grace Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, USA. She was an American social worker who specifically worked in improving the rights of immigrants, especially those from eastern Europe, and advancing child welfare, especially the regulation of child labor. She graduated from Grand Island College in 1898. She worked as a high school teacher in 1906. In 1909, she received a Ph.M. in political science from the University of Chicago. She was head of the US Children's Bureau from 1921-34. She served as a professor of public welfare at the University of Chicago from 1934-1939. She wrote several books include: The immigrant and the community, The Child and the State, and From Relief to Social Security.
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