Hull-House Maps and Papers

Inspired by their Progressive Era faith in social science solutions to society's problems, the residents of Hull-House collaborated on this work of sociology based on their experiences as residents of Chicago's Near West Side. The contributors to this book believed that an enlightened citizenry could be mobilized for reform, and that by publishing maps with explicit information about the wages and conditions of the working poor in Chicago's Nineteenth Ward they would educate the public and inspire reforms. In addition to Jane Addams's own prefatory note and paper on the role of social settlements in the labour movement, contributors provided detailed, real-world analyses of the Chicago Jewish ghetto, garment workers and the sweatshops, child labour, immigrant neighbourhoods in the vicinity of Hull-House, and local charities. This edition also contains eight colour reproductions of the original Hull-House neighbourhood maps. The year 2006 marks the one hundred and eleventh anniversary of the publication of "Hull-House Maps and Papers", and the volume remains a dramatic statement about the residents' shared values as well as a major influence on subsequent social surveys.

ISBN 0252031342   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780252031342 (What's this?)   Pages 192 Publisher University of Illinois Press   Volumes 1 Imprint University of Illinois Press   Weight (grammes) 680 Format Hardback   Published in Baltimore Publication date 15 Feb 2007   Height (mm) 260 Writer of introduction Rima Lunin Schultz   Width (mm) 183 Library of Congress 2006011258   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 361.00977311041   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

I		Map notes and comments by Agnes Sinclair Holbrook		53
II		The sweating-system by Florence Kelley		63
III		Wage-earning children by Florence Kelley and Alzina P. Stevens		73
IV		Receipts and expenditures of cloakmakers in Chicago by Isabel Earon		90
V		The Chicago ghetto by Charles Zeublin		96
VI		The Bohemian people in Chicago by Josefa Humpal-Zeman		107
VII		Remarks upon the Italian colony in Chicago by Alessandro Mastro-Valerio		115
VIII		The cook county charities by Julia C. Lathrop		120
IX		Art and labor by Ellen Gates Starr		130
X		The settlement as a factor in the labor movement by Jane Addams		138
App		Outline sketch descriptive of Hull-House		151

"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"

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