ASIN: B01HDF981G
Publisher: Purely Publishing
Pages: 696
Constance Lowell is a brilliant and rather outspoken young woman. Given free reign of her thoughts from a young age and schooled at only the best women’s institutions, she doesn’t hesitate to speak her mind. On a visit to a factory out west, she is struck by the ages of the workers, some as young at seven. When she tells the foreman about the deplorable conditions, especially for children and proceeds to remove the child from the environment; she gains the attention of the factory owner. Jameson Smitz has owned the Bethel Clothing Company since it was given to him as an incentive to earn his Master’s in Business Administration from Stanford. He does so five years later in 1890. He runs a tight but fair ship and when confronted by Constance about his practices of using child labor he is truly taken aback. Promising change and more transparency, Jameson begins a correspondence with the ...
