Alice Hamilton

Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Florence Kelley, Lillian Wald, and many others founded the settlement house movement -- the nation's first generation of community organizers - and embraced crusades for workers' rights, public health, housing reform, women's suffrage, civil rights, and peace.

Peter Dreier: Traitors to Their Class Peter Dreier 2011

Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Florence Kelley, Lillian Wald, and many others founded the settlement house movement -- the nation's first generation of community organizers - and embraced crusades for workers' rights, public health, housing reform, women's suffrage, civil rights, and peace.

Peter Dreier: Traitors to Their Class Peter Dreier 2011

Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Florence Kelley, Lillian Wald, and many others founded the settlement house movement -- the nation's first generation of community organizers - and embraced crusades for workers' rights, public health, housing reform, women's suffrage, civil rights, and peace.

Peter Dreier: Traitors to Their Class Peter Dreier 2011

Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Florence Kelley, Lillian Wald, and many others founded the settlement house movement -- the nation's first generation of community organizers - and embraced crusades for workers' rights, public health, housing reform, women's suffrage, civil rights, and peace.

Peter Dreier: Traitors to Their Class Peter Dreier 2011

By 1919 Alice Hamilton was the acknowledged expert in the field of industrial medicine, and though Harvard University's entire faculty was male, the medical school determined that they would create a department of industrial medicine with Hamilton as its leader.

Kate Kelly: For Labor Day: A Nod to a Woman Who Pushed for Worker Safety 2009

A few years later, Alice Hamilton pushed for government regulations concerning toxic industrial chemicals.

AP Environmental Science Chapter 24- Environmental Laws and Regulations 2008

Alice Hamilton (1869 – 1970) was a founder of industrial toxicology in the United States.

Hamilton, Alice 2007

The environmental justice focus on issues of the living and working place also harkens back to the environmental health issues raised by Alice Hamilton at the turn of the century — again emphasizing that those who do not attend to history are condemned to repeat it.

Roots of environmental justice 2006

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Woman Making History #39: Ruth Bader Ginsberg (What if No One's Watching?) 2006

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Days of the week (What if No One's Watching?) 2006