Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions - Hardcover

Addams, Jane; Residents Of Hull-House

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252031342 ISBN 13: 9780252031342

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Synopsis

Hull-House Maps and Papers In addition to a prefatory note and paper on the role of social settlements in the labour movement, this work provides an analyses of the Chicago Jewish ghetto, garment workers and the sweatshops, child labour, immigrant neighbourhoods in the vicinity of Hull-House, and local charities. Full description

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Review:

"This edition . . . is welcome for its thoughtful extended introduction by Rima Lunin Schultz . . . and for the eight full color maps showing wage and ethnicity data accompanying what has been described as the first social survey in the United States."--H-SHGAPE

"This book is a towering statement by early sociologists, especially women, and on outstanding example of the application of knowledge in the community."--Indiana Magazine of History

From the Author:

Rima Lunin Schultz is the editor of Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963, an educational website at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, at the University of Illinois at Chicago (http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/). She is the editor of Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0252031342
• ISBN 13: 9780252031342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200