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Winifred Salisbury to Jane Addams, January 5, 1910

Salisbury praises Addams' new book and shares some of her own experiences working in a candy factory.

Courts Industry Labor Praise Women's Rights

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: Problems of Poverty, July 1910

Addams describes the poverty of the Hull-House neighborhood in the early days of her work there. She discusses the lack of security and loneliness of the elderly, as well as child labor.

Child Labor Hull-House Labor Poverty Settlement Movement Social Welfare

James E. Tower to Jane Addams, May 15, 1911

Tower asks Addams to write an article about the working conditions of female servants for Good Housekeeping.

Labor Onsite Prostitution Publishing Requests

Marinda Emolyn Blackbourn to Jane Addams, May 20, 1911

Blackbourn asks Addams to recommend a woman to become chief officer of a state home for delinquent girls in Ohio.

Jobs Juvenile Delinquency Requests

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Chapter II: Economic Pressure and Its Inevitable Results, December 1911

Addams explores the economic plight of young women that often drives them to prostitution and white slavery. This is the second in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil in 1912.

Books Consumerism Prostitution White Slavery

Anonymous (A well wisher in Your Project) to Jane Addams, December 2, 1911

After reading Addams' article in McClure's Magazine, the unknown correspondent shares some of her own ideas about women in Panama and the Canal Zone.

Morality Social Purity White Slavery

Charles M. Sheldon to Jane Addams, December 8, 1911

Writing in response to Addams' article on prostitution, Sheldon asks her why the temptations of vice do not doom all girls in similar situations.

Labor Morality White Slavery

Lewis J. Duncan to Jane Addams, December 9, 1911

Duncan tells the story of the proprietor of a brothel, whom he has convinced to get out of the prostitution business, and asks Addams to help her.

Prostitution Requests Social Purity

Adelaide Youngman to Jane Addams, December 11, 1911

Youngman criticizes Addams' argument that women working in factories are underpaid and, thus, more likely to become prostitutes.

Labor Prostitution

William H. Redington to Jane Addams, December 18, 1911

Redington praises Addams' recent magazine articles, sends a donation, and tells her about his factory in which he employs women.

Charity Labor Praise

Outline of an Industrial Social Policy, May 23, 1912 (fragment)

An outline listing the Committee on Industrial Relations' steps to creating a safe and healthy workplace.

Jobs Labor

Ada Lois James to Jane Addams, May 28, 1912

James sends Addams a descriptive and financial report of the campaign activities of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Labor Politics Woman Suffrage

Charles Allen Prosser to Jane Addams, June 12, 1912

Prosser asks Addams for advice in selecting a woman to work for the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education.

Education Industry Jobs Requests

The Progressive Party and Safeguards for Working Girls, August-September, 1912

Addams lays out the Progressive Party's pledge to working women--the prohibition of night work, the institution of the eight-hour day, and a minimum wage in sweated industry. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association for the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

Labor