Journal of Education

Addams highlighting the lack of attention most pay to the industrial labor done to produce everyday goods.

A published version of a speech Addams delivered in February 1905, it is a discussion of the benefits of elective school boards, touching on practical education in public schools.

Addams discusses the damage that child labor causes children, physically and mentally, and calls for it to be halted.

Addams warns adults of some aspects of trade schools for boys. The speech was given at the first convention of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education on January 24, as part of a session entitled The Wage Earners' Benefit from…