Nellie Bly — It Pays to Treat Employees Right

Nellie Bly’s 1921 Article About Bad Employers

From the start of her reporting career in 1885 to her final days in 1921, Nellie Bly was always — always — a champion for the rights of working women. For all the stunts, all the travel, her guiding star was ever women’s rights. As contradictory as she could be, chastizing suffragists for not dressing well enough, from her first to last articles, she was the voice of the working woman.

This article, just a month before her death, is the perfect example of her never-ending outrage…