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Significance of Organized Labor, September 1898

The Subtle Problems of Charity, February 1899

Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.

Charity Labor Poverty Social Work

Address to the Young Men's and Young Woman's Christian Associations, June 17, 1901

In a speech in Chicago, Addams warns female students of their future after graduating from college.

Education Gender Roles

Statement on Wife Desertion, June 17, 1901

Addams argues against Bicknell's claims that one of the top reasons that men desert their wives is due to poor cooking skills.

Gender Roles

The College Woman and Christianity, August 8, 1901

Addams discusses the challenges facing college women, including the habit of self-preparation, a tendency to make an exception of herself, and the danger that study without action makes a person timid and irresolute. She argues that there is a need to do and to do for others without concern for one's own reputation that makes for good Christian work.

Education Hull-House Religion Settlements Writings

Obligation of the Woman College Student to Christianity Today, August 8, 1901

A draft of Addams' article about the challenges facing college women who want to contribute to society.

Education Hull-House Religion Writing

Obligation of the Woman College Student to Christianity Today, August 8, 1901

Addams discusses the challenges facing college women who want to contribute to society.

Education Hull-House Religion Social Work Writing

Statement on Proposed Housemaid Union Strike, August 9, 1901

Addams discusses the fear that if the Housemaid's union strikes, men will take their place permanently.

Gender Roles Labor

Speech to the Chicago Workingwomen's Association, August 22, 1901

Addams and Henrotin discuss the need to form a union for housewives at a meeting of the Chicago Workingwoman's Association.

Labor Lectures

Statement at the Negro Exposition, August 27, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams attends the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Negro Exposition and comments that in future the work of women will equal that of men.

African-Americans

Speech to the Chicago Business Woman's Club, November 19, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses woman's capacity for bad behavior and that women's philanthropy should be more active in areas like child labor.

Child Labor Lectures Philanthropy Woman Suffrage

Statement on Women Workers Marriages, December 6, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams weighs in on the idea that women who work in household service are more likely to marry more frequently and in better circumstance. This is part of a longer article.

Labor Marital Relations

Address to the Hull-House Woman's Club, December 11, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams notes abuses of Hull-Houses day nurseries by lazy fathers whose wives have to work.

Charity Children Hull-House

Statement on Open Separation Contract, December 30, 1902

Addams refuses to be quoted about Frances Dickinson's ideas about marriage by contract.

Lectures Marital Relations

Industrial Adjustment in the Household, March 18, 1903 (excerpt)

Newspaper summary of Addams' speech to the Philadelphia Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, in which she argues that housewives are not Progressive thinkers.

Lectures Progressive

Industrial Adjustment in the Household, April 15, 1903 (excerpt)

Newspaper summary of Addams' speech to the Philadelphia Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, in which she argues that women's leisure time has changed.

Lectures

Statement on Widows Pensions, October 28, 1903

Addams discusses which widows can be granted scholarships for their children.

Child Welfare Education Women

Address to the Chicago Woman's Club, November 11, 1903

Addams speaks about women reformers' duty to treat the unfortunate with compassion and not contempt.

Charity

Address to the South Side Woman's Club, February 16, 1904 (excerpt)

Newspaper report of Addams' address to the South Side Woman's Club, dealing with how women can cope with the lack of servants by using prepared foods. The article was published under different headlines in multiple newspapers.

Home Economics Labor Lectures

The Consumer's League as an Expression of Social Obligation (summary), March 21, 1904

Addams discusses the importance of the Consumer's League in pushing for child labor reforms.

The Responsibilities and Duties of Women toward the Peace Movement, October 5, 1904

Addams discussed women's role in the peace movement at the Universal Peace Conference in Boston.

Lectures Peace

Address to the Women's Trade Union League, March 26, 1905 (excerpt)

At the inaugural conference of the Women's Trade Union League, held at the Berkeley Lyceum in New York, Addams argues that women workers should unionize to improve working conditions.

Conferences Labor Lectures

The Relation of Club Women to Social Problems, April 15, 1905 (excerpt)

In a speech before the Chicago Women's Association. Addams complains that college women are disinclined toward philanthropy.

Education Gender Roles Lectures Philanthropy Social Reform

The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women, 1906

Addams discusses the history of suffrage and argues that women in modern, urban societies need the vote.

Government History Immigrants Juvenile Delinquency Labor Public Health Woman Suffrage

Charles Patrick Neill to Jane Addams, January 29, 1906

Neill offers Addams advice and assistance in securing an investigation of the condition of women workers.

Government Labor Requests

Report on Social Economy Exhibits, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Committee, February 8, 1906

Addams reports on efforts of women in creating exhibits that discussed social economy compared to the Paris Exhibition in 1900.

Conferences Philanthropy Social Work

Municipal Suffrage, March 6, 1906 (excerpt) Also known as Address to the Lake View Women's Club, March 6, 1906 (excerpt)

Addams gave an address to the Lake View Women's Club about her views on woman suffrage at the municipal level of government.

Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Whole Duty of Man, June 3, 1906

Addams argues that strict gender roles for mothers and fathers are not useful.

Gender Roles Social Reform

Jane Addams to the General Federation of Women's Clubs, July 7, 1906

Addams explains the distribution of a circular with regards to protection to working women.

Labor Women's Rights

Mount Holyoke College Commencement Speech, June 19, 1907

Woman's Journal summary of Addams' Mount Holyoke commencement speech covering women's empowerment, college training and morality. The speech was given on June 19, and published on June 29, 1907.

Education Lectures Politics Women's Rights

Mount Holyoke College Commencement Speech, June 19, 1907 (excerpt)

Addams discusses women's empowerment, college training and morality to the graduates of Mount Holyoke College.

Education Lectures Politics Women

Why Girls Go Wrong, September 1907

Addams explores the lack of opportunities, education and home life that leads young women into trouble.

Children Crime Immigrants Poverty

Wolves That Prey on Women, September 29, 1907

Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money. This column appeared with slight variations in a number of newspapers between 1907-1910.

Finances

Address Before the Nineteenth Century Club, October 14, 1907 (excerpts)

Addams argues that woman suffrage might impact the plight of fallen women who are preyed upon by men.

Crime Enforcement Lectures Morality Prostitution Woman Suffrage

Wolves That Prey on Women, January 9, 1908

Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money. This is a reprint of an article first published in 1907.

Business Finances Gender Roles Women's Rights

Smith College Address, March 18, 1908 (extract)

Addams discusses traditional women's roles and how they correspond to a greater need for the involvement of woman in politics.

Child Welfare Lectures Legislation War Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Social Legislation and the Need for the Ballot for Women (excerpt), March 21, 1908

Addams discusses poor women in Chicago and their need for suffrage at a meeting of the College Equal Suffrage Society at Boston University on March 21. The excerpt was published later.

Housing Immigrants Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Relation of Women to Industry and Social Legislation (excerpt), March 22, 1908 (excerpt)

An excerpt from Addams' March 22 speech at Faneuil Hall to the Boston Equal Suffrage Association and the Women's Trade Union League on the changes in women's work brought about by factory work.

Education Germany Immigrants Labor Lectures Legislation Public Health Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Working Woman and the Ballot, April 1908

Addams gives arguments for woman's suffrage, stressing that working class need it to be able to control some aspects of their lives.

Gender Roles Labor Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, April 6, 1908

In this address, delivered for the Merrick Lectures, Addams speaks about the difficulty of assimilation into American life for immigrant women.

Child Labor Immigrants Industry Labor Woman Suffrage

Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, April 6, 1908

In this address, delivered for the Merrick Lectures, 1907-8, Addams describes the difficulty immigrant women face as they try to assimilate into American life.

Child Labor Hull-House Immigrants Industry Labor Public Health Women's Rights

Interview with the Kansas City Star, April 20, 1908

Addams talks with a Kansas City Star reporter about increased political participation, recreation in cities and her work as garbage collector in Chicago.

Lectures Politics Recreation Social Work

Some Reflections on the Failure of the Modern City to Provide Recreation for Young Girls, December 5, 1908

Addams advocates for the value of organized recreation for working class women.

Gambling Morality Recreation Youth

Woman's Suffrage and the Preservation of the Home, May 1909

Addams argues women's need for the vote so that they can perform their duties to family and the nation.

Hull-House Immigrants Public Health Woman Suffrage

Woman's Special Training for Peacemaking, May 4, 1909

Addams argues that it is time for women to work in groups and advocate for causes that are important to them, like peace. Addams gave this address at the National Peace Congress in Chicago. This version was published in the proceedings.

Conferences Peace Women's Rights

American Women Slowest of English Speaking Women, May 6, 1909

Addams argues that American women are behind their European peers with regard to individual rights.

Immigrants Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Interview at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, May 22, 1910

Addams argues that the role of women in society is broadening and will continue to expand in future.

Lectures Politics Settlement Movement Social Reform Theater

Wolves That Prey On Women, July 16, 1910

Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money.

Business Finance Women's Rights

Interview with James Evans Crown, September, 1910

In an interview with James Evan Crown, Addams discusses the impact that woman suffrage is having on society. Addams later denied having taken part in this interview, specifically her comments on the poor.

Journalism Labor Social Work Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Tribute to Theodore Parker, November 17, 1910

Addams pays tribute to Theodore Parker at a Memorial Banquet in Chicago, where she praised his anti-slavery work and support of black suffrage, blamed his generation for not extending suffrage to women, and surmised that Parker would have ultimately supported the franchise for women had he lived longer.

Abolition Death Praise Religion Woman Suffrage

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Municipal Suffrage, March 6, 1906 (excerpt) Also known as Address to the Lake View Women's Club, March 6, 1906 (excerpt)

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