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    Frances Perkins

    Ruth Cashin Monsell

    A captivating biography that tells the inspiring story of Frances Perkins, the first woman to hold a Cabinet-level position in the United States.

    As Secretary of Labor under President Franklin…

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    A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins

    Penny Colman

    This exquisite biography recounts her volunteer work at Hull House, her eyewitness reaction to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911, and her work as secretary of labor during FDR’s…

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    Steadfast: Frances Perkins, Champion of Workers’ Rights

    Jennifer J. Merz

    When Frances Perkins witnessed NYC’s Triangle Fire, her desire to aid workers transformed into her life’s mission. She’s 1st woman in US Cabinet and the force behind the New Deal.

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    Steadfast: Frances Perkins, Champion of Workers’ Rights

    Jennifer J Merz

    Frances Perkins gasped in disbelief when she visited a factory and saw the horrific conditions that workers endured. Moved by the injustice, she felt compelled to help, setting her on…

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    Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers’ Rights

    Deborah Hopkinson

    An engaging biography of Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet member and activist who created the Social Security program.

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    Thanks to Frances Perkins: Fighter for Workers’ Rights

    Deborah Hopkinson

    An engaging biography of Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet member and activist who created the Social Security program.

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    Vocations for the Trained Woman: Opportunities Other Than Teaching, Volume 1, Part 1

    Agnes Frances Perkins

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    Borden Capalino: Works 2013-2015

    Borden Capalino,Frances Perkins

    You definitely find some bizarre stuff!Borden Capalino’s work, which could previously been described as being akin to forensic surrealism, begins as a collection process. Images from craigslist.com are compiled, collated…

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    The Roosevelt I Knew

    Frances Perkins

    Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1946.

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    The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America

    Kathleen Krull

    Discover the incredible life of Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.

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    Tread the City’s Streets Again: Frances Perkins Shares Her Theology

    Donn Mitchell

    Tread the City’s Streets Again is the first book to explore the theology and vocation of Frances Perkins, the settlement house worker who went on to lift millions of Americans…

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    The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America

    Kathleen Krull

    Biography of Frances Perkins, the first female member of the presidential cabinet, and architect of much of the New Deal legislation as Secretary of Labor –Provided by publisher.

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    The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance,

    Kirstin Downey

    Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive and-dare I say-inspiring new biography of Perkins … not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt’s character. -Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh…

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    Historical Female Management Theorists: Frances Perkins, Hallie Flanagan, Madeleine Parent, Viola Desmond

    Kristin S. Williams (Dalhousie University, Canada)

    Emerging research interrogates the role of management history in the neglect of women and their accomplishments - Williams builds expertly on this research, bridging feminist theory and critical historiography. Historical…

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    An Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric: Lessons in Phraseology, Punctuation, and Sentence Structure (1903)

    Helen Josephine Robins,Agnes Frances Perkins

    ""An Introduction To The Study Of Rhetoric"" is a book written by Helen Josephine Robins and published in 1903. The book is aimed at students who want to improve their…

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    Cannibal Actif

    Rochelle Goldberg

    Artist book tracing the cannibal’s consuming action and subsequent digestion, through corporeal flesh to mechanistic fixtures, pushing the material limit of ink on a page as a reflection of this…

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    United States, Ex Rel. Winston Guest, Petitioner, V. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, et al.

    George W Dalzell

    Full Title: United States, ex rel. Winston Guest, Petitioner, v. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, et al. Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of…

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    The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, Fdr’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience

    Kirstin Downey

    Written with a wit that echoes Frances Perkins’s own, award-winning journalist Kirstin Downey gives us a riveting exploration of how and why Perkins slipped into historical oblivion, and restores Perkins…

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    The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, Fdr’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience

    Kirstin Downey

    Written with a wit that echoes Frances Perkins’s own, award-winning journalist Kirstin Downey gives us a riveting exploration of how and why Perkins slipped into historical oblivion, and restores Perkins…

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    France in the American Revolution

    James Breck Perkins

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the "public…

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    France under Mazarin

    James B Perkins

    France under Mazarin - with a Review of the Administration of Richelieu - Volume I, Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is…

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    France in the American Revolution

    James Breck Perkins

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    Midwifery and Medicine in Early Modern France: Louise Bourgeois

    Wendy Perkins

    The author was midwife to Maria of Medici, Queen of France, from 1601 to 1609, and the first woman in modern times to write about what she calls her art…

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    France Under Louis Xv

    James Breck Perkins

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    France Under Louis Xv

    James Breck Perkins

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    France under Louis XV.

    James Breck Perkins

    Title: France under Louis XV.

    Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

    The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research…

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    Roads and Pavements in France (1896)

    Alfred Perkins Rockwell

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    France Under Louis XV V1

    James Breck Perkins

    In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we…

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    France Under Louis XV V1

    James Breck Perkins

    In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we…

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    Report on the pension systems and invalid hospitals of France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Italy

    Stephen Perkins

    Report on the pension systems and invalid hospitals of France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Italy is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863. Hansebooks is editor of…

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    The Woman Behind the New Deal Lib/E: The Life of Frances Perkins, Fdr’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience

    Kirstin Downey

    Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive…

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    People at Work

    Frances 1880-1965 Perkins

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    France Under the Regency: With a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV

    James Breck Perkins

    Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Publication date: 1892 Subjects: France Biography

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    France Under the Regency: With a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV

    James Breck Perkins

    Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Publication date: 1892 Subjects: France Biography

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    France Under the Regency: With a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV

    James Breck Perkins

    Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Publication date: 1892 Subjects: France Biography

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    France Under the Regency: With a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV

    James Breck Perkins

    Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Publication date: 1892 Subjects: France Biography

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    France Under the Regency: With a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV

    James Breck Perkins

    Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Publication date: 1892 Subjects: France Biography

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    France Under the Regency: With a Review of the Administration of Louis XIV

    James Breck Perkins

    Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Publication date: 1892 Subjects: France Biography

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    France Under the Regency with a Review of Administration of Louis XIV

    James Breck Perkins

    General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Subjects: France Biography

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    France under the Regency with a review of the Administration of Louis XIV

    James B Perkins

    France under the Regency with a review of the Administration of Louis XIV is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature…

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    The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work: Frances Perkins and the Confluence of Early Twentieth Century Social Work with Mid-Twentieth Century Politics and Government

    S. Miller

    The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work concerns the ‘hand’ the New Deal plays from the perspective of early American History in which government and business cooperation is…

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