Bosworth, Louise Marion, 1881-1982.
Biographical notes:
Bosworth, daughter of a bank president, grew up in Illinois, graduated from Wellesley College in 1907, and was a social worker. She worked for a number of settlement houses and participated in surveys of workers' living conditions, including the Women's Educational and Industrial Union survey (1907-1909) of incomes and expenditures of women workers, the results of which she published as The Living Wage of Women Workers; a survey (1911) of available housing in Philadelphia, which she later published as Housing Conditions in Main Line Towns; and an investigation (1914) of living costs, under the auspices of the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation.
From the description of Papers, 1890-1946 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122506540
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- College students
- Cost and standard of living
- Depression, Mental
- Finance, Personal
- Friendship
- Mothers and daughters
- School children
- Social settlements
- Social workers
- Teenage girls
- Voyages and travels
- Wages
- Women
- Women
- Working class
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- United States (as recorded)
- Massachusetts (as recorded)
- Boston (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Illinois (as recorded)
- Wellesley (Mass.) (as recorded)
