Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions

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Inspired by their Progressive Era faith in social science solutions to society’s problems, the residents of Hull-House collaborated in this work of sociology in response to their experiences as residents of Chicago’s Near West Side. The contributors to this book believed that an enlightened citizenry might be mobilized for reform, and that by publishing maps with explicit details 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 at the role of social settlements in the labor movement, contributors provided detailed, real-world analyses of the Chicago Jewish ghetto, garment workers and the sweatshops, child labor, immigrant neighborhoods in the vicinity of Hull-House, and local charities. This edition also accommodates eight color reproductions of the original Hull-House neighborhood maps.  The year 2006 marks the only hundred and eleventh anniversary of the publication of Hull-House Maps and Papers, and the volume remains a dramatic commentary about the residents’ shared values in addition to a tremendous influence on subsequent social surveys. 

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