Carolina Muzzilli

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Carolina Muzzilli
Born
Carolina Muzzilli

(1889-11-17)17 November 1889
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died1917 (aged 27–28)

Carolina Muzzilli (17 November 1889 – 1917) was an Argentine industrial researcher and social activist of Italian descent. She was the first woman to be made an official of Argentina's National Department of Employment.[1] She did much to improve the working conditions in factories and the work place in Argentina.

Career

Muzzilli was a seamstress, working in a factory. As a self-taught person, she reported on the working conditions of female laborers in

Women's Tribune, a feminist journal. In her work for the Women's Tribune, she took active part in the education programmes for the workers of cigar and textile industries in particular, as the health conditions prevailing in these industries were deplorable; she projected this as a class conflict.[1]

Muzzilli was instrumental in the enactment of legislation to protect workers by active participation in 1906, in the activities of the Beneficent Society.

Catholics, accustomed to wearing the papal cloak in processions."[5]

In 1913, Muzzilli wrote the award-winning "El trabajo femenino", regarding the conditions faced by working women.[6] In the same year, she participated in the Congress for the Protection of Childhood, and three years later, she campaigned for the Socialist Party. She wrote a number of articles in the Vanguard in 1917.[1] Her career was short-lived as she died of tuberculosis at the age of 28, in 1917.[1]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-57607-101-4
    . Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  2. ISBN 978-1-884964-18-3
    . Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  3. ISBN 978-0-618-78321-2
    . Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  4. ISBN 978-0-89733-152-4
    . Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Carolina Muzzilli, Inhumane Work in the Laundries" (PDF). College.cengage.com. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  6. ISBN 978-0-8032-7095-4
    . Retrieved 26 April 2013.
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