Spearheads for Reform - The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914

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

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: Allen Davis
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1985
• EAN: 9780813510736
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-1073-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 485 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education