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The Business Woman's Opportunity for Philanthropy, November 19, 1901

Newspaper coverage of Addams' November 19 address to the Chicago Business Woman's Club linking child labor to laziness in adults.

Child Labor Hull-House Lectures Philanthropy

Speech at the Child-Saving Conference, January 30, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams and Bodine discuss changes needed in compulsory education rules to make them more effective.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 6, 1902

Addams invites Blaine to a speech she is giving at the Chicago Woman's Club.

Lectures Requests

Address to the Chicago Business Women's Club, April, 1902

Addams addresses the Chicago Business Women's Club on factors that may cause children to grow into "tramps."

Child Labor Child Welfare Crime Lectures

The Newer Ideals of Peace, July 9, 1902

Addams's second of two lectures on the topic of "Newer Ideals of Peace," this one about the impact of labor and trade on international relations.

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Club Women Urged to Visit Factories, Chicago Inter Ocean, November 16, 1902, p. 7..jpg

Speech to the Cook County League of Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams and De Bey urge Chicago clubwomen to visit factories to see the working conditions for children and discuss a measure that will make it more difficult to keep children out of school.

Child Labor Education Lectures Legislation

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.

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Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, December 29, 1902

Addams writes Kelley about a child labor bibliography, work with charities, and Margaret Kelley's injury playing basketball.

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Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Houses, "Newsboy Conditions in Chicago," 1903

A 28-page illustrated pamphlet outlining the work and social conditions of newsboys and newsgirls, based on a two-day intensive investigation. In it the Committee proposes revisions in child labor laws to curb the worst excesses.

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Social Science, January 28, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the different methods of social work and describes how the settlement works to help society.

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Samuel Gompers to Jane Addams, March 10, 1903

Gompers thanks Addams for writing an article on child labor to be published in the American Federationist.

Child Labor

Child Labor and Pauperism, May 9, 1903

Addams describes the plight of child labor and education in Chicago, especially in the case of immigrants.

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Child Labor and Pauperism, May 9, 1903 (draft)

Addams' draft speech, on child labor and education, given at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in Atlanta.

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Address to the National Conference of Charities and Correction, May 9, 1903 (excerpt) Also known as Child Labor and Pauperism, May 9, 1903 (excerpt)

An excerpt of the talk given by Addams at the National Conference of Charities and Correction of 1903 on the effects of child labor.

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Victor Fremont Lawson to Jane Addams, September 26, 1903

Lawson notes that he has heard that Addams seeks a change in the newsboy ordinance and wants to discuss it with J. C. Schaffer.

Legislation

Child labor as a Factor in the Increase of Pauperism, October 4, 1903

Addams recounts some of the ways child labor has ruined the future of those children exposed to it.

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Jane Addams to Dimies T. S. Denison and the General Federation of Women's Clubs, ca. December 1903

Addams writes to the members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs regarding the organization's work with child labor and the letter

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Stanley McCormick to Jane Addams, January 12, 1904

McCormick agrees to join the National Child-Labor Committee and explains that he has not made a decision yet about Richard T. Ely's request.

Child Labor Requests

Edgar Gardner Murphy to Jane Addams, January 18, 1904

Murphy seeks to interest Stanley McCormick and Anita Blaine in joining the National Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 20, 1904

Addams encloses a message from Edgar Murphy and urges Blaine to support it.

Child Labor Requests

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, February 1, 1904

Addams tells Kelley that she has joined the Child Labor Committee and asks about Kelley's son, John.

Child Labor Friends Health

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.

Introductory Note to Children in American Street Trades, [1905]

Addams provides an introduction for a reprint of Myron E. Adams' article published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, on the working conditions of newspaper boys.

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Introductory Note to Children in American Street Trades, [1905]

Addams provides an introduction for a reprint of Myron E. Adams' article published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, on the working conditions of newspaper boys.

Child Labor Labor Settlements

Child Labor, March 16, 1905

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

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Child Labor Legislation: A Requisite for Industrial Efficiency, May 1905

Addams discusses the evil effects of child labor on labor practices and education.

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Simon N. D. North to Theodore Roosevelt, December 7, 1905

North discusses the availability of data on woman and child labor held by the Census Bureau and their efforts to compile it.

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Simon Newton Dexter North to Jane Addams, December 9, 1905

North wrote to Addams about Theodore Roosevelt's complaint that there was insufficient data on women and children's employment, and asks for her help with a plan.

Labor

Jane Addams et al. to Bryan Lathrop, December 15, 1905

Writing on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee, Addams and others court financial support from public-spirited citizens in Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia.

Children Labor Philanthropy Requests

H. R. 17562, March 30, 1906

The text of a bill authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical conditions of women and child workers in the United States.

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Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood, November 14, 1906

Addams' argues that child labor is the greatest social ill in remarks at the American Humane Association Convention on November 14, 1906. This version was published in December.

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A National Children's Bureau and a National Investigation of the Labor of Women and Children, December 14, 1906

Addams' speech before the National Child Labor Committee in Cincinnati calls for government regulations to protect women and children.

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Theodore Roosevelt to William Boyd Allison, January 29, 1907

Roosevelt informs Allison of the passage of a law to investigate and report on the conditions of working women and children in America.

Labor Legislation Politics

The True Ideal of a Public School System That Aims to Benefit All, January 25, 1908

Addams expands on the cultural values taught in industrial education and training.

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Child Labor and Education, May 10, 1908

In Addams' speech before the National Conference of Charities and Correction, she forcefully argues for child labor reform as well as increased education. The speech, given on May 10 in Richmond, VA, was published in the proceedings.

Child Labor Education Labor Lectures

Ethelbert Stewart to Jane Addams, July 3, 1908

Stewart complains of the poor state of education and asks Addams for a copy of her address to the National Educational Association.

Child Labor Education Requests

Owen Reed Lovejoy to Jane Addams, August 6, 1908

Lovejoy asks Kansas citizens to build a Kansas branch of the National Child Labor Committee. Addams likely received this as a member of the national organization.

Child Labor Requests

The "Piece-Work" System as a Factor in the Tuberculosis of Wage-Workers, 1908

At the Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington, D.C., Addams and Hamilton discuss "Economic Aspects of Tuberculosis" and why people living in poverty are more susceptible to the disease.

Child Labor Industry Labor Lectures Public Health

John A. Butler to Jane Addams, January 19, 1909

Butler writes Addams about his desire to have Ben B. Lindsey speak in Milwaukee.

Labor Meetings Requests

Address on the Children's Bureau, January 21, 1909

Addams argues for the establishment of a federal bureau for the protection of children, especially regarding the issues of child labor and education. The speech was given before the Fifth National Child Labor Conference, held in Chicago.

Labor Politics

Address on Street Trading, March 1909

Addams discusses a previous study on newsboys and argues that there are no child labor laws that protect them. These comments were made at the National Child Labor Committee annual meeting in January 1909.

Child Labor Conferences Legislation

The Federal Children's Bureau -- A Symposium, March 1909

Addams argues for the establishment of a federal bureau for the protection of children, especially regarding the issues of child labor and education. This is a published version of Addams's speech to the National Child Labor Committee meeting in January 1909.

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