Born this day in 1880: Agnes Nestor (1880–1948), labor leader and social reformer.
Nestor was known especially
for her role in unionizing women workers. She founded the International Glove
Workers Union of America and served as its president from 1913 to 1916 and its
vice president from 1916 to 1939. She led strikes resulting in higher wages and
better working conditions and the organization of the Chicago Women’s Trade
Union League, which she led from 1913 to 1948. She played a leading role in the
passage of an Illinois law limiting women’s working hours to 10 hours per day. She
developed worker education programs and helped write the Smith-Hughes Act of
1917, which provided the first federal aid for vocational education. She is
also remembered for her work in child-labor, minimum wage, maternity health,
and woman suffrage legislation.
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