Twenty Years at Hull-house: With Autobiographical Notes |
What people are saying - Write a review
Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified
LibraryThing Review
User Review - rivkat - LibraryThingInteresting historically. Addams was an assimilationist who spoke fairly respectfully about Southern European and Jewish traditions; a reformer who sought government by experts but also the franchise ... Read full review
LibraryThing Review
User Review - MrsLee - LibraryThingWritten in the early 1900s, this is the story of the beginnings of Social Services in America. Jane Addams tells not only about her experiment with Hull House, but about her philosophy of what social ... Read full review
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able afford alderman American anarchist Association attempt became become Board boys Chicago child child labor church citizens civic classes clothes club colony committee connection constantly coöperative course daughter discussion doubtless Dukhobors early East London effort enthusiasm experience factory father Federation girl Greek Hall Halsted Street Haymarket riot held hope Hull Hull-House residents human Illinois immigrants industrial Italian Italy Jane Addams Juvenile knew labor later least lecture legislation living ment mind moral morning mother neighborhood neighbors never night organized overmastering peasant perhaps political poor Pullman strike recall remember residents of Hull-House Rockford College Russian secure seemed sense Settlement Settlement movement social spirit strike struggle Sunday sweating system sweatshop talk teachers tenement theater things tion Tolstoy Toynbee Hall undertaking ward week winter woman women young