From pinafores to politics
By: by Mrs. J. Borden Harriman.
Contributors: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner.; National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: H. Holt and company
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918.; Women in politics -- United States.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921.; Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs.
Description: This autobiography details the life of Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman, a wealthy New York woman who worked diligently for issues concerning working-class women. Harriman was one of the women who lent her financial support to the shirtwaist workers' strike in 1909. In addition, with Mrs. Oliver H.P. Belmont and Miss Anne Morgan, she helped organize a strike meeting of the WTUL at the Colony Club, the first women's social club in NYC, which she also helped organize. In 1912, she was named by Woodrow Wilson to serve on the Federal Industrial Relations Commission.