Pluralism and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890-1919
University of Chicago Press, 1989
Cloth: 978-0-226-48502-7
Library of Congress Classification HV4196.C4L5 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.8400977311
Cloth: 978-0-226-48502-7
Library of Congress Classification HV4196.C4L5 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.8400977311
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The settlement house movement, launched at the end of the nineteenth century by men and women of the upper middle class, began as an attempt to understand and improve the social conditions of the working class. It gradually came to focus on the "new immigrants"—mainly Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Jews—who figured so prominently in this changing working class. Hull House, one of the first and best-known settlement houses in the United States, was founded in September 1889 on Chicago's West Side by Jane Addams and Ellen G. Starr. In a major new study of this famous institution and its place in the movement, Rivka Shpak Lissak reassesses the impact of Hull House on the nationwide debate over the place of immigrants in American society.
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