Consumers League of New Jersey

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.

From the description of Consumers League of New Jersey papers, 1938-1982. (Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library). WorldCat record id: 639948206

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