"self-betterment" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2010, Susan Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women's Health, Temple University Press, page 88:",
          "text": "Before the 1850s, when women figured most prominently in textile employment, the reasons that caused women to seek paid labor—a ne'er-do-well husband, economic distress of the natal family, or a belief that factory work was a road to self-betterment—often precluded their considering an away-from-home cure.",
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          "text": "Specifically, they recount ideological testimonials that frame ideology in terms of personal growth and self-betterment.",
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        "The act of making oneself better."
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