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The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is an American consumer organization. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues. The NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer's perspective on concerns including child labor ...
Florence Moltrop Kelley (September 12, 1859 – February 17, 1932) was a social and political reformer and the pioneer of the term wage abolitionism. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, [ 1] and children's rights [ 2] is widely regarded today.
Josephine Shaw Lowell in 1899 (from a Bas-Relief by Augustus Saint-Gaudens) Perhaps her most wide-ranging and effective organization was the New York Consumers' League which she established in 1890. This organization strove to improve the wages and the working conditions of women workers in New York City.
Mary Dewson. Mary Williams Dewson (1874–1962) was an American feminist and political activist. After graduating from Wellesley College in 1897, she worked for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. [1] She became an active member of the National Consumers League (NCL) and received mentorship from Florence Kelley, a famous advocate for ...
Ethical consumerism (alternatively called ethical consumption, ethical purchasing, moral purchasing, ethical sourcing, or ethical shopping and also associated with sustainable and green consumerism) is a type of consumer activism based on the concept of dollar voting. [1] People practice it by buying ethically made products that support small ...
Sally Greenberg, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group National Consumers League, applauded the lawsuit. “Hidden fees in the ticketing industry have truly gotten out of control. The price that is ...
The Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team was sued in July by the National Consumers League, over ticket fees that the group argued were not initially displayed. Show comments.
She was president of the Consumers' League of New York State, 1901-1905, and a member of the Executive Committee National Consumers' League, 1901 -1906. Her Chicago activities including being club leader of the Maxwell Street Settlement, Chicago, 1894-1898. She was a teacher at the Sinai Temple Sunday School, Chicago, 1894-1899; and a member of ...