Florence Kelley was born on September 12, 1859 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Kelley was a political activist and labor reformer who dedicated her life to protecting children and women who worked long, exhausting, underpaid hours in factories. She was born into a family strongly devoted to abolitionism. Kelley graduated from Cornell University, and studied management and law at the University Of Zurich. At the University of Zurich, Kelley “joined the Socialist Party and during her years in the Socialist Party translated into English Friedrich Engels' 'The Conditions of the Working Classes in England' in 1844 and Karl Marx' Address on Free Trade” (McGuire). In addition at the University of Zurich, Kelley married a Russian Socialist and medical student, Lazare Wischnewsky. In 1886, the couple moved to the United States, where they joined a Socialist Labor Party, in which Kelley was tremendously active in. Because of moral differences, Kelley and Lazare divorced in 1891. After her divorce, Kelley moved to Chicago, and “became an inhabitant of a Hull House created by Jane Addams, settlement house in Chicago. Her main concern was the problem of child labor and she kept building up her concern and expressed in her pamphlet called Our Toiling Children” (McGuire). With her pamphlet, Kelley influenced the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics to hire her to inspect and investigate sweatshops, which was a working environment that was unacceptable or dangerous to work in. In addition, she was hired to inspect Chicago slums. In 1893, after Kelley finished her investigations, the first factory law was passed in Illinois. This law “prohibited factory owners from hiring children, placed controls on sweatshops, and limited the number of hours women could work” (McGuire). After her exceptional work, in 1899, Kelley got the job of general secretary of the National Consumers’ League, which was an organization that pursued to improve working