American workers-rights advocate (1880–1965) who became the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet as United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945. Biographical typescript signed at the head in fountain pen, "Frances Perkins," four page, 8 x 10.5, October 6, 1936. An outline of Perkins's career and accomplishments, documenting her work as executive secretary of the Consumers' League of New York, Secretary of the Committee on Safety, Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York, and Secretary of Labor in the cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which role she promoted "shorter hours, higher wages, better physical conditions of work, including protection against accident and industrial disease, abolition of child labor, recognition of the desirability of wage earners' representation, assistance in obtaining employment, security in old age, insurance against unemployment and other hazards." In fine condition, with small tape stains to the edges.
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