Allen Davis

Spearheads for Reform

The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Allen Davis looks at the influence of settlement-house workers on the reform movement of the progressive era in Chicago, New York, and Boston.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780813510736
• ISBN-10: 0813510732
• Artikelnr.: 21636978

Autorenporträt

Davis, Allen

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the 1984 Edition
1 The Settlement Idea
2 The Settlements Impulse
3 The Settlement, the Public School, and Progressive Education
4 Playgrounds, Housing, and City Planning
5 Immigrants and Negroes
6 The Settlements and the Labor Movement
7 Working Women and Children
8 The Settlement Worker Versus the Ward Boss
9 The Settlement Movement and Municipal Reform
10 The Progressive Crusade
11 Epilogue
A Note on Sources
Bibliographical Addenda 1984
Notes
Index