Carolina Muzzilli
Carolina Muzzilli (November 17, 1889 – 1917) was an Argentine industrial researcher and social activist of Italian descent. She became the first woman official in Argentina’s National Department of Employment and worked to improve working conditions in factories.
A seamstress by trade, Muzzilli educated herself and wrote about the harsh conditions faced by women workers for La Prensa. She led the Women’s Tribune and promoted practical, class-conscious feminism aimed at real changes in the workplace, especially in the cigar and textile industries. She also helped push for protections for workers through the Beneficent Society in 1906.
In 1907, she advocated for divorce laws in Argentina after Uruguay legalized divorce, a move that drew mixed reactions. In 1912, she highlighted dangerous conditions for women in the laundry of La Higiénica, where workers fainted from heat, criticizing inspectors who counted lost time instead of helping.
Her 1913 work El trabajo femenino shed light on the problems faced by working women. She participated in the Congress for the Protection of Childhood and, around 1916, campaigned for the Socialist Party. She wrote in Vanguard in 1917 and died of tuberculosis later that year, at about 28 years old.
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