KEEPING WOMEN WORKERS HEALTHY IN THE WOMENS CLUB TRADITION

This essay is a case study of a New York City philanthropy's effort fr om 1927 through 1953 to preserve the health of white women working in clerical, sales, and professional jobs for low wages. In creating a su bsidized health clinic for this targeted population of women workers, the urban charity succeeded in relieving the suffering and worry of on e part of the working-poor population while simultaneously reinforcing racial and social class divisions of the period.