Bibliograph

Six remarkable Hull-House women, by Ruth Bobick

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Six remarkable Hull-House women, by Ruth Bobick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Six remarkable Hull-House women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907190308

Responsibility statement

by Ruth Bobick

Summary

Industrialization, an influx of immigrant labor, and the spread of city slums, together with a lack of opportunity for the first generation of college women, contributed to the rise of social settlements. Hull-House brought help and hope to impoverished workers, while providing employment for residents through such services as a kindergarten, evening classes, music school, and gymnasium. Confronted with the harsh living conditions of neighboring women and children, settlement reformers turned first to the city, then to state and federal legislatures. No more admirable women could have been assembled in the struggle for social justice than the six of Jane Addams, Julia Lathrop, Florence Kelley, Alice Hamilton, and Grace and Edith Abbott. -- Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The Hull-House settlement -- Crisis of 1893-1894 -- Jane Adams -- Julia Lathrop -- Florence Kelley -- Hull-House maps and papers -- Alice Hamilton -- The Progressive era -- More new organizations: Florence Kelley and the Consumers League ; Julia Lathrop and the Children's Bureau -- Pacifism and World War I -- The twenties : Grace Abbott, Second Head of the Children's Bureau ; Edith Abbott, Dean of the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration -- Afterword: the New Deal

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