Woman and Labor

Author of the classic novel, The Story of an African Farm, South African writer Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) early became a free thinker, rationalist, and passionate liberal in economics and politics. A fervent advocate of feminist causes, she rebelled against Victorian-era social and political practices, particularly the inequalities of labor practices between men and women in the early years of the 20th century. Woman and Labor is her vivid, eloquently expressed effort to promote her princ...