Six remarkable Hull-House women
By: by Ruth Bobick
Publisher: Randall Publisher, Peter E.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781942155102
Subjects: Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.); History; Women social reformers; Biography; Social settlements
Description: 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.
Notes: Contains Primary sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Hull-House settlement; title: Crisis of 1893-1894; title: Jane Adams; title: Julia Lathrop; title: Florence Kelley; title: Hull-House maps and papers; title: Alice Hamilton; title: The Progressive era; title: More new organizations: Florence Kelley and the Consumers League ; Julia Lathrop and the Children's Bureau; title: Pacifism and World War I; title: 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; title: Afterward: the New Deal.