Today in Labor History March 4, 1933: Frances Perkins became U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet. As labor secretary, she helped develop the social security system in 1935. She also played an important role in the development of other New Deal programs. And in 1939, she came under fire from Congress for refusing to support the deportation of ILWU chief, Harry Bridges, who they accused of being a Communist. As a young woman, Perkins worked with Florence Kelly, a social and political organizer who fought against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workday and children’s rights. Kelley was a follower of Karl Marx and a friend of Friedrich Engels. Perhaps for these reasons, people accused Perkins of being a Communist, which she was not. Perkins had also volunteered at Hull House, with Jane Addams.
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La Sécurité Sociale, telle qu'elle a été conçue aux USA a 90 ans.
C'est le août 1935 que FD Roosevelt a signé le Social Security Act.
Mais derrière cette loi, c’est le travail acharné d'une femme qui est a féliciter : Frances C. Perkins.
La 1ère femme de l'histoire à être membre d'un gouvernement américain, en tant que Secretary of Labour, ministre du travail.
Elle est restée à ce poste de 1933 à 1945.
En France on a eu Amboise Crozat, aux USA, ce fut une femme, Frances "Fanny" Perkins à qui ils doivent leur Social Security, que Trump et ses broligarques détruisent consciencieusement pan par pan.
#Feminisme #Histoire #USA #SecuriteSociale #FemmesDansLHistoire #FrancesPerkins
August 14, 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act (SSA) into law, creating unemployment compensation, old-age benefits and aid to dependent children.
"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age.”
~ President Roosevelt at the signing
The SSA became law thanks to the tireless efforts of FDR's Sec. of Labor, Frances Perkins. The first woman to hold a cabinet position, BTW. Perkins came from privilege and became a champion for those trapped in industrial jobs & the less fortunate.
(14/22)
Après 44 jours d'occupation de l'usine -> Sloan obligé céder et reconnaît l'Union des Travailleurs Automobile comme interlocuteur unique de General Motors #syndicat -> Psdt Roosevelt envoie Frances Perkins Secrétaire au Travail superviser l'accord.
-> #FrancesPerkins félicite Sloan d'avoir enfin cesser "de se comporter en adolescent névrosé." (cf Elon sous ketamine 2025)
Today in Labor History March 4, 1933: Frances Perkins became U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet. As labor secretary, she helped develop the social security system in 1935. She also played an important role in the development of other New Deal programs. And in 1939, she came under fire from Congress for refusing to support the deportation of ILWU chief, Harry Bridges, who they accused of being a Communist. As a young woman, Perkins worked with Florence Kelly, a social and political organizer who fought against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workday and children’s rights. Kelley was a follower of Karl Marx and a friend of Friedrich Engels. Perhaps for these reasons, people accused Perkins of being a Communist, which she was not. Perkins had also volunteered at Hull House, with Jane Addams.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #feminism #womenshistorymonth #communism #harrybridges #francesperkins #florencekelly #marx #communism #janeaddams #socialsecurity #newdeal #sweatshops #ilwlu
“Perkins recognized that the central purpose of government was not to protect property; it was to protect the communities of people who lived in the nation. She recognized that children, the elderly, women, and disabled Americans, all of whom contributed to society whether or not that contribution was recognized with a paycheck, were as valuable to the survival of a community as male workers and the wealthy men who employed them.”
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-16-2024
New, New Deal
“With a law that established a federal system of old-age benefits; unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and neglected children; funds to promote maternal and child welfare; and public health services, #FrancesPerkins began the process of molding the government to reflect that truth
Perkins’s understanding of the United States as a community reflected both her time in a small town in Maine and in her experience as a social worker in inner-city Philadelphia and Chicago before the law provided any protections for the workers including children who made the new factories profitable”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-2024
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