Unit 1: Vocabulary from Readings 1

T'was mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.

Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.

And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

Nobody in the factory’s management took the steps that Indian law requires to stop harassment. That includes setting up an internal complaints committee and disseminating and publicly displaying the names and contact information of committee members.

Investing in the underlying infrastructure that translates paper codes of conduct into actual practice is key to any meaningful effort.

Second, brands should recognize the limits of social and labor compliance checks (known as “social audits” in industry parlance), in which it may not be possible to address issues like harassment effectively.

That included factory management not allowing the complainant to work, suddenly finding fault with her productivity and quality of work, or warning that she was a troublemaker.

They could ensure that there are effective and accessible grievance- redress systems for workers if their problems are not resolved at the factory level.

Apparel and footwear companies should call on employers’ organizations and governments to unequivocally support a binding standard in next year’s negotiations.

Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy.

A good law was repealed which had required women and [children] to stop work at six in the evening and at noon on Friday.

Would the New Jersey Legislature have passed that shameful repeal bill enabling girls of fourteen years to work all night, if the mothers in New Jersey were enfranchised? Until the mothers in the great industrial states are enfranchised, we shall none of us be able to free our consciences from participation in this great evil.

They carry bundles of garments from the factories to the tenements, little beasts of burden, robbed of school life that they may work for us.

But we are almost powerless. Not wholly powerless, however, are citizens who enjoy the right of petition.

But we are almost powerless. Not wholly powerless, however, are citizens who enjoy the right of petition.

An Act To establish in the Department of Commerce and Labor a bureau to be known as the Children's Bureau.

The said bureau shall investigate and report to said department upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth-rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting children in the several states and territories.