page_title: Cornelia De Bey
section_title: Reform work and The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelia De Bey / Reform work and The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Cornelia De Bey, Dutch immigrant to Chicago, Hull-House Resident, Homeopathic Doctor, Chicago Public School Administrator. "Trustee Who Proposed the Plan Which Has Split the School Board."
context_page_description: Dr. Cornelia De Bey was a Progressive Era reformer, homeopathic doctor, Chicago public school administrator, labor advocate, and leader in the women's suffrage movement. She worked with the famous Hull House community of social reformers, including Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Alice De Wolf Kellogg, and Ellen Gates Starr. She advocated for major school administration reform, exposing corruption, advocating for more democratic decision-making, and defending the unionization of teachers.
context_section_description: De Bey was involved in the Settlement House Movement, a reform movement which prioritized women's involvement in Progressive Era reforms. Women working in the settlement movement in the United States focused on education, cleanliness and health awareness, as well as providing daycare for working mothers. Many women taught adult-education classes to immigrants. De Bey was also involved in the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL), a reform movement led by Progressive-Era women including Jane Addams. This organization was strongly feminist, and was closely tied with the Settlement House Movement. The WTUL worked to establish the eight-hour workday and a minimum wage, as well as the abolition of child labor. The leaders and members supported the female garment industry workers during the garment industry strikes between 1910 and 1911. De Bey and other members of the Settlement House Movement were involved in the WTUL and other Progressive Era Reform movements because they were educated middle and upper-middle class women, and they felt morally responsible for helping others that were less fortunate than them.
caption: Dr. Cornelia De Bey
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