Addams discusses the role of social workers in improving public health, law, and education. She gave this speech at the First Church in Boston as part of the National Conference of Social Work.
Addams discusses how the recent immigrant quota laws have created hardships for immigrants and the American economy, and have created false ideas about immigrants and social problems.
Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.