 Bagley and her coworkers became involved with middle-class reform activities, demonstrating the ways in which working people embraced this reform impulse as they transformed and critiqued some of its key elements.Her activities within the labor movement reveal many of the tensions that underlay relations between male and female working people as well as the constraints of gender that female activists had to overcome.Sarah George Bagley was born April 19, 1806 in Candia, New Hampshire to Rhoda (née Witham) and Nathan Bagley, both members of large New England families.