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How Would You Uplift the Masses?, February 4, 1892

Addams describes the efforts of Hull-House in a speech to the Sunset Club in Chicago.

Democracy Education England Hull-House Immigrants Settlement Movement Settlements

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

Social Settlements, August 12, 1900 (summary)

Addams discusses the difference between social settlement work and charitable work.

Lectures Settlement Movement

Ill-Gotten Gifts to Colleges, November 1900

Scudder critiques colleges that accept donations from unethical sources.

Crime Education Finances Morality

Respect for Law, January 3, 1901

Addams' argues that mob violence, and particularly lynching against African Americans in the South, erodes respect for the all among all groups and accomplishes nothing positive for any community that condones it.

African-Americans Crime Enforcement Writings

What is the Greatest Menace to Twentieth Century Progress?, February 14, 1901

Addams explores lessons learned from the 19th century, and sees the greatest menace for the future as the lack of faith in the people and an over reliance on national pride.

Democracy Lectures Morality

One Menace to the Century, February 14, 1901

Addams explores lessons learned from the 19th century, and sees the greatest menace for the future as the lack of faith in the people and an over reliance on national pride.

Democracy Lectures Morality

Social Settlement Aims, March 22, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams discusses English settlement work at the Kenwood Evangelical Church.

England Lectures Settlement Movement

Education and Labor, March 24, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams discussed the role of schools in preparing children for life in a speech at the Ethical Society.

Education Labor Lectures

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 Using Boys as Messengers, April 8, 1901

Addams and Thomas argue why boys 14 and younger should be sent to school rather than work as messengers.

Child Labor

Petyr Alexeyevich Kropotkin to Jane Addams, April 10, 1901 (summary)

Kropotkin tells Addams that he must postpone his trip to Chicago due to illness.

Health Hull-House Visits

Address to the Kindergarten Union Convention, April 13, 1901

Addams comments on the importance of kindergarten in settlement work at the close of a convention of the International Kindergarten Union.

Statement on Apprenticeship System, April 19, 1901

Addams argues that the proposed apprenticeship system needs to be remodeled before it will be effective.

Child Labor Education Manufacturing

Statement on Tenement Housing in Chicago, May 1, 1901

Addams reports on the recommendations of the City Homes Association in regard to the building of tenement houses in Chicago.

Housing Hull-House Lectures Poverty

Statement on Paris Hull House, May 28, 1901

Addams disputes a claim that a settlement house based on Hull-House was to be established in Paris.

France Settlement Movement

Statement on the Safety of the Streets at Night, June 1, 1901

Addams comments how the streets would be safer at night if they were better lit.

Statement on Jewish Peddlers, June 2, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams offers sympathy to Jewish peddlers at a meeting of the Chicago Protective League. This was excerpted from a longer article about the event.

Immigrants Lectures

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

Address to the Chicago Institute, June 21, 1901

Addams criticizes trade schools in an address to the Chicago Institute.

Child Labor Education Lectures

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

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

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

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 Abraham Isaak and Chicago Anarchists, September 8, 1901

Addams asks the Mayor for permission to see Abraham Isaak and other anarchists arrested in the wake of the McKinley assassination.

Anarchism Courts Crime Immigrants

Comments on Abraham Isaak, September 9, 1901

Taylor and Addams discuss the arrest of Abraham Isaak.

Anarchism Crime Crime Enforcement Immigrants

Statement on Abraham Isaak, September 10, 1901

Newspaper coverage of Addams' statements involving her interest in the case of anarchist Abraham Isaak.

Anarchism Civil Rights Immigrants Politics

Address to the National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches, September 25, 1901 Also known as The Church and the Social Problem, September 25, 1901

Addams recalls the different difficulties in creating an inviting and educational space for Italian immigrants.

Hull-House Immigrants Italy Lectures Social Work

Address to Hull-House Woman's Club, October 9, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the evils of the sweatshop system and urges women to look for the union label when shopping for goods.

Labor Lectures

Statement on Clement Pfuetzner, October 20, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams remarks on an altercation between Clement Pfuetzner and socialists meeting at Hull House.

Statements on H. H. Powers, October 26, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams, Thomas, and Gunsaulus decry the proposal of H. H. Powers to exterminate the feeble-minded for the benefit of the strong.

Lecture on the University Social Settlement, October 29, 1901

A newspaper report of Addams' speech before the Woman's Club of Bloomington, on the work of the University Social Settlement. Addams provided a history of settlement work and the basic principles at Hull-House.

Hull-House Lectures Settlements

Ideals of Tolstoy, November 1, 1901 (summary)

Addams discusses Tolstoy's life and philosophy.

Hull-House Lectures Peace Philosophy

Lecture at the First Unitarian Church, November 2, 1901 (excerpts)

A summary of Addams' talk on Tolstoy and settlements, given at the First Unitarian Church in Minneapolis.

Labor Lectures Settlement Movement

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

Statement on Young Couples and Housekeeping, December 27, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams comments on Judge E. F. Dunne's statement that $25 is enough for a young couple to start housekeeping. This was taken from a longer article on the topic.

Home Economics Lectures

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First Report of the Labor Museum at Hull House, 1902

Addams provides an overview of the activities of the Hull-House Labor Museum, complete with illustrations of weaving. The sixteen-page report discusses the weaving and cloth-making techniques of various immigrants who live in the Hull-House neighborhood.

Children Crafts Education Hull-House Immigrants Labor