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April 2004, Vol 94, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 540
© 2004 American Public Health Association

IMAGES OF HEALTH

Factory Injuries and Progressive Reform

Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown

Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Bldg 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: elizabeth_fee@nlm.nih.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Source. Prints and Photographs Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.

THIS COLORED WOOD engraving, circa 1886, captures an all-too-common scene in late-19th-century America: a woman injured during the course of factory work. Scenes like this—and others far more horrific—inspired muckraking journalists and the national labor reform movement of the Progressive Era.1 In 1907, the popular author Arthur B. Reeve wrote, "To unprecedented prosperity . . . there is a seamy side of which little is said. Thousands of wage earners, men, women, and children, [are] caught in the machinery of our record breaking production and turned out . . . [Full Text]




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