Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers' Rights

Frances Perkins made a difference.

She witnessed the tragic fire at the Triangle Waist Company building where 146 people, mostly teenage girls, died. She attended a memorial gathering where Rose Schneiderman urged workers to work together for better working conditions, and Rose's ideas provoked Frances into action. Over time, Perkins helped get bills passed to limit the work week to fifty-four hours for women and children under eighteen, helped working women who sat for many hours to get chairs with backs, helped establish a minimum wage and unemployment insurance for workers, and helped create the Social Security program.

This book, written by the wonderful children's nonfiction author, Deborah Hopkinson, is a great tribute to the efforts of one woman to make the world a better place.