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

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Addam's notes for a tribute to Alzina Parsons Stevens, the president of Hull-House's Woman's Club.

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

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Addams thanks Blaine for her donation, which will secure future manual classes and the Labor Museum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Gompers writes Addams regarding Ben Tillett's visit to Chicago and the prospect of Tillett delivering an address at Hull House.

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

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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.

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Addams speaks to the Traction Commission, representing the working people living in the 19th Ward and seeking a reduction of public transportation fares.

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An article about an upcoming conference of employers and employees centered on discussion of the eight-hour workday.

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Ely explains to Addams that he will write a series of articles for Harper's Weekly and describes an idea to her for his next article.

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Warren praises Addams' speech about child labor that she delivered in Los Angeles.

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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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Addams discusses how the peasant influenced the work of Tolstoy and his approach to labor.

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Addams discusses the Hull-House Labor Museum and the effect of factories on craftsmanship.

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Charles Love criticizes the tendency of employers and employees to have separate lives outside the shop door, and he seeks a new social order in which they would interact at work and outside of work.

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Barnes writes to Addams about her book, Democracy and Social Ethics, and expresses some concerns about her ideas.

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Jones sends Addams funds for the miners on strike and offers his opinion on the issue.

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Reports the creation of a resolution by the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs to name Jane Addams to President Roosevelt's commission to settle a miner's strike.

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Keith writes to Addams about the Chicago Board of Education.

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Addams discusses means of closing the divide between capitalist and trade unions.

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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.

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Addams seeks a lecture on the Poetry of Labor or the Poetry of Revolt for Hull-House.

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Gompers writes regarding the American education system and its attitude towards children and labor. He requests that Addams send him any information relevant to the issue.

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Gompers requests and article about child labor for the American Federationist, in order to gain public attention and sympathy.

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Addams' comments to striking girls about working conditions and labor organization. The strike, against the International Harvester Company, Deering Division, resulting in the shut down of the plant, putting 6,000 out of work. This is a portion of a longer article on the strike.

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

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

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Addams comments about child labor, pointing out the difference between the educational opportunities child workers had a generation ago versus those working in factories in 1903.

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Excerpts from Addams' speech on educational opportunities wasted due to discrimination against immigrants.

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Addams' speaks to the Consumer's League about the dangers of sweat shops and child labor.

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

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Addams describes child labor and education in Chicago, especially among immigrants. This is a slightly modified version of "Child Labor and Pauperism," which had earlier appeared in the proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. It is also the full version of the "Child and Pauperism" fragment.

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

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

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Addams discusses Tolstoy and his ideas on labor and peace.

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Addams' speech about Henry Demarest Lloyd's life, focused on his personal and public accomplishments.

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Ely asks for advice on approaching Helen Culver for funding for his investigation of Industrial Democracy.

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Also known as Address to the Chicago Ethical Society, December 20, 1903

The Inter Ocean summarizes Addams' lecture on rising corruption in trade union leadership.

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Addams argues that if the rulers of European countries lived among their people, they would see that labor and commerce were what made nations, not its military might.

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Addams discusses the role of education in the lives of working class children. This is an excerpt from her book Democracy and Social Ethics.

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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.

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Addams discusses the role that education plays in the life of the workingman. This article is an excerpt from Democracy and Social Ethics.

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Addams congratulates Blaine and the City Homes Association for their hard work and remarks on a discussion she had with Charles Eliot about the closed shop.

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