Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

Addams, Jane; Sidel, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141180994 ISBN 13: 9780141180991

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1998

Synopsis

A pioneering social worker relates her experiences and observations about the settlement house she founded

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Review:

"An indispensable classic of American intellectual and social history." -- Berenice A. Carroll, editor of Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays. "After twenty years of relative obscurity, the early-twentieth-century social crusader and author of Twenty Years at Hull-House is once again in the spotlight." -- Arianne Chernock, Lingua Franca. "The classic account of the development of Hull-House into a vibrant community center for Chicago's immigrants and poor. Addams' memoir is central to understanding the aims and mood of the progressive era." -- The Front Table

Synopsis:

On September 18, 1889, the doors of Hull-House, a decayed mansion in Chicago's west side slums, opened for the first time, and one of the great social movements in modern America was launched. This text is Jane Addam's account of the famed settlement house she founded and of the principles of social justice that inspired her. Addams tells the real stories of the people fictionalized in the novels of Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair, bringing to life newly arrived immigrants who were forced to live on the margin of society, working intolerable hours for little pay and crowded into slums teeming with disease, crime, and vice. She describes her decision to establish Hull-House as a refuge and chronicles its development into a vibrant community centre, providing not only social services but social evenings, ethnic celebrations, and classes that offered the best of American culture and values to an alien and despised population.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0141180994
• ISBN 13: 9780141180991
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 336