14 Quotes by Alice Hamilton

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

There was nothing to do but begin with trades we knew were dangerous and hope that, as we studied them, we would discover others less well known.

The first step must be, of course, an inquiry into the extent of our industrial sickness, and he determined to have such an inquiry made in Illinois.