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Anderson, Mary
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1872–1964, American labor expert, chief (1919–44) of the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Labor, b. Sweden. She emigrated to the United States in 1888. After some years as an industrial worker in garment and shoe factories, she became an organizer for the National Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union and one of the founders of the National Women’s Trade Union League. In 1918 she was appointed assistant to the chief of the Women’s Bureau, becoming its chief in 1919.
See her autobiography, Woman at Work (1951, repr. 1973).
See her autobiography, Woman at Work (1951, repr. 1973).
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