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Consumers' Research, Inc. (128)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tb52dt (corporateBody)

For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of their records, see the introduction to this finding aid . For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc., and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . Coinciding with...

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National Consumers' League (72)

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Organization founded in 1899 to monitor the conditions under which goods were manufactured and distributed. The League was founded in 1898 to improve conditions for workers. The National Consumers' League was founded in 1899 by the New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago Consumers' Leagues. Florence Kelley served as the first executive secretary (1899-1924). The League was concerned with bettering wages, hours and working conditions, especia...

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Consumers union of United States (26)

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Collecting area: Records of Consumers Union. Will also accept papers and records of other consumer groups or activists.

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Consumers' League of Ohio (14)

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The Consumers League of Ohio was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1900 by a small group of women active in a local literary society, the Book and Thimble Club. The League affiliated with the National Consumers League which had been founded in 1899 by Florence Kelley. Its purpose was "to further the welfare of those who make or distribute the things bought" and to this end all Leagues created "white lists" of stores which consumers might patronize, secure in the knowledge that the w...

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Massachusetts Consumers' Council (6)

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The Consumers' Council (known in its annual reports as the Massachusetts Consumers' Council) was established by St 1963, c 773 as an independent agency comprised of eight gubernatorial appointees and serving as a public advocate for consumer interests. It was the first such organization in the United States. The council was charged with conducting studies, investigations, and research; advising the executive and legislative branches in matters affecting consumer interests; coordi...

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Consumers' League of New York City (13)

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The Consumer's League of New York City was formed in 1891 as a result of a report made in 1890 by Alice Woodbridge, secretary of the Working Women's Society, the forerunner of the Women's Trade Union League. This report enumerated the deplorable working conditions and long hours under which women engaged in the retail trade had to work. A small group of women proceeded to organize the league, whose first activity was to prepare a white list of shops paying minimum fair wages and...

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Consumers' League of Massachusetts. (7)

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The League, established in 1898, sought to mobilize public opinion in support of improved conditions for workers.

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Consumers League of New Jersey (9)

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The Consumers League of New Jersey was founded in 1900. In that era, children worked in factories, and many of the protections of modern life which we take for granted were nonexistent. Consumers League struggled for 35 years before its original agenda: safe food, safe working conditions, prohibitions on child labor, promotion of minimum wages laws, and union protections, was enacted into law as the New Deal. It is the oldest continuing state-wide consumer organization in the United States....

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Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley (6)

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Chronology 1937 The Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, composed mostly of church and University people, opens a food store in Berkeley. 1938 The Berkeley Cooperative Union, with members coming largely from the Finnish community, opens a service station and hardware store in Berkeley....

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Consumers Power Company (Mich.) (4)

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