such setback, Nestor continued her work as a labor leader and spent a lot of time fundraising for the unions. At one point, she served as the Director of Research and education for the IGWU-AFL. Nestor served on the National Recovery Administration in its work to regulate worker safety. In the last decade of her life, Nestor never retired, rather she spent her remaining years recruiting unorganized glove workers, and preventing the relaxation of labor laws during World War II. Death Nestor died on December 28, 1948 (aged 68) in Chicago after years of suffering from infections and respiratory illnesses. She is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery. Selected works (1910), The working girl's need of suffrage (1917), The trend of legislation affecting women's hours of labor (1921), Women workers marching on (1942), Brief history of the International Glove Workers Union of America, organized at Washington, D.C., December 17–20, 1902, charter granted December 23, 1902, by the American Federation of Labor (1954), Woman's labor leader. An autobiography Further reading References 1880 births 1948 deaths American trade union leaders American women's rights activists Writers from Chicago Politicians from Grand Rapids, Michigan American suffragists American social reformers 20th-century American writers 20th-century American women writers Writers from Grand Rapids, Michigan Activists from Illinois Activists from Michigan Clubwomen