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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

Statement on $2.50 Weekly Wage, April 4, 1901

Women argue against setting a weekly salary of $2,50 because it was not sufficient to health and well-being.

Labor Lectures Poverty

Statement on Expansion of Women's International Labor League, July 19, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams comments on increasing the scope of the Women's International Labor League. This was taken from a longer news article.

Labor Lectures Women

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

Speech at Working Women's Association Meeting, August 22, 1901

Addams speaks on uplifting and empowering the experiences of domestic workers.

Labor Lectures Women

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

The Servant Problem, September 1903

Addams discusses the condition of domestic servants with regard to introducing new industries in the home, the move for shorter hours, and collective housekeeping.

Consumerism Gender Roles Jobs Labor

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

Speech to Hull-House Woman's Club, April 6, 1904 (excerpt)

A newspaper report that includes an excerpt from Addams' talk to the Hull-House Woman's Club on the object and history of the Women's Trade Union League.

Hull-House Labor Lectures

The Present Crisis in the Trades-Union Morals, August 1904

Addams discusses public reaction against trade-unions, strikes, and their activities.

Industry Labor Women's Rights

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

Excerpts from Addams' speech discussing conditions for individual women workers who seek to improve wages and working conditions.

Labor

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.

Children Labor

Charles Patrick Neill to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, January 29, 1906

Neill updates Breckinridge about the status of getting funding for the women's labor study, suggesting that Addams should testify before the Congressional Committee.

Government Labor

Charles P. Neill to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, January 30, 1906

Neill telegrams Breckinridge that he thinks it best to secure an appropriation for a study on women workers before created a detailed plan.

Government Labor

James Albertus Tawney to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, January 31, 1906

Tawney confirms that he will consider a study of women's labor and appropriation authorization is approved.

Government Labor

William Boyd Allison to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, February 1, 1906

Allison offers to help with passing an appropriation for a study on women and labor, but notes that it must come from Charles McNeill at the Department of Commerce and Labor.

Government Labor

Henry Cabot Lodge to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, February 1, 1906

Lodge agrees to assist Breckinridge with her study of women's labor.

Government Labor

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, February 3, 1906

Breckinridge returns some materials about the lobbying for an investigation of working conditions for women and discusses the status of the work.

Government Labor

Report on Exhibits on Housing of the Working Class, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, February 8, 1906

Addams reports on efforts of women in creating exhibits that discussed British efforts to provide adequate housing for impoverished families.

Conferences Housing Social Work

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.

Child Labor Government Legislation Politics

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

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, February 10, 1908

Robins writes Addams to apologize for the newspaper reports about the Women's Trade Union League pulling their meetings from Hull-House.

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, February 10, 1908

Post informs Addams that the newspaper coverage of the Women's Trade Union League's decision to move their meetings from Bowen Hall at Hull-House to the Chicago Federation of Labor Hall was inaccurate and designed to cause hard feelings.

Journalism Labor

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

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

The Lack of Public Recreation in Our Cities, December 20, 1908 (excerpt)

The Houston Post summarizes Addams' statesments on the need for public recreation for girls.

Child Welfare Public Works

Jane Addams et al. to Dear Sir, [October 15, 1909]

The American Association for Labor Legislation prepared this form letter to gather support in Illinois for limiting work for women to 60 hours per week.

Labor Legislation Onsite Requests

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

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