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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 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

Address to the Merchant's Club, March 8, 1902

With Maud Booth, Addams addresses the Merchant's Club, appealing for aid in helping criminals and rescuing boys who may become criminals.

Child Welfare Courts Crime Immigrants Lectures Poverty

Address to Merchant's Club, March 8, 1902

With Maud Booth, Addams addresses the Merchant's Club, appealing for aid in helping criminals and rescuing boys who may become criminals.

Crime Crime Enforcement Poverty

Delinquent Children, May 31, 1902

Addams addresses the Merchants Club of Chicago regarding the stealing and gambling habits of young, immigrant boys.

Child Welfare Children Gambling Immigrants Poverty Youth

The Social Results of Charitable Effort, November 17, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the need to understand the poor in order to solve the problems of poverty.

Charity Immigrants Lectures Poverty Settlement Movement Social Work

Audience Questions after The Social Results of Charitable Effort, November 17, 1902

Addams and Dibble argue about the nature of the poor after she gives her speech.

Lectures Poverty Public Opinion

Comments at the University Society Annual Meeting, March 21, 1903 (excerpts)

Newspaper summary of Addams' comments about the need to increase the work of settlements to meet need.

Charities Lectures Poverty Settlement Movement

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.

Child Labor Children Consumerism Education Industry Labor Poverty

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.

Charity Child Labor Lectures Poverty

To Live on $12 a Week, October 23, 1903

Addams describes how a man can support his family on $12 per week.

Finances Poverty

New Methods in Philanthropy, November 7, 1903 (excerpts) Also known as Address to the Catholic Women's League, November 7, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams speaks to the Catholic Women's League about the ways the poor are harmed by unthinking charitable efforts.

Child Labor Lectures Philanthropy Poverty

Thusnelda Peemoller to Jane Addams, November 18, 1903

Peemoller requests a scholarship for Ferdinand Pankonin and explains the family's poverty and need.

Charity Poverty Requests Social Work

Social Regeneration, December 7, 1903 (summary)

The Chicago Daily Tribune, summarizes Addams' talk to the Chicago Bureau of Charities on the morality of charity.

Charity Lectures Poverty

Social Regeneration, December 24, 1903

Addams argues the lower class can only be raised up if everyone in the community takes a interest in their plight. The article appeared in multiple newspapers.

Poverty Social Reform

Interview with Topeka Daily Capital, December 8, 1905

Addams discusses her work in settlements and at Hull House with a reporter from the Topeka Daily Capital.

Hull-House Poverty Settlement Movement

Day Nurseries: Do They Foster Parental Irresponsibility (extract), December 30, 1905

An extract of Addams' discussion of day nurseries, and their impact on poor families.

Education Poverty Social Welfare

Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: Fifteen Years at Hull House (First of Three Installments), March 1906

Addams's autobiographical writing about her impetus to found Hull-House and its early activities.

Biography Family Hull-House Immigrants Poverty Social Work

Settlement Work, June 1, 1906 (excerpt) Also known as Address at the General Federation of Women's Clubs Convention, June 1, 1906 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the role that settlements play in improving the conditions of the poor. Only the portion of the article with Addams remarks has been included.

Charity Lectures Poverty Settlement Movement Social Class

Why Girls Go Wrong, September 1907

Addams explores the lack of opportunities, education and home life that leads young women into trouble.

Children Crime Immigrants Poverty

The Layman's View of Hospital Work Among the Poor, September 17, 1907

Addams's speech to the American Hospital Association meeting, held in Chicago on September 17, 1907 was later published in the organization's journal. In her talk Addams discusses prejudice against the poor in hospitals and their reluctance to seek care from hospitals.

Conferences Health Lectures Medicine Poverty

The Layman's View of Hospital Work Among the Poor, October 1907

Addams' speech to the American Hospital Association meeting, held in Chicago on September 17, 1907 was published in the organization's journal. In her talk Addams discussed the prejudices against the poor in hospitals and their reluctance to use them.

Health Lectures Medicine Poverty

Hospital Red Tape, December 22, 1907

Addams discusses the experiences of the poor in hospitals. This is an excerpt of her speech, The Layman's View of Hospital Work Among the Poor, from September 17, 1907.

Health Lectures Medicine Poverty

John Rayborn to Jane Addams and Margaret Dreier Robins, January 27, 1908

Rayborn asks Addams and Robins for assistance in finding a job and getting him and his family out of poverty.

Onsite Poverty Requests

Jane Addams to Richard H. Edwards, December 16, 1908

Addams suggests some reading to Edwards and sends along two Hull-House pamphlets.

Education Poverty

Excerpt from Twenty Years at Hull-House, 1910

Addams describes her childhood exposure to poverty when she used to visit the mill with her father.

Books Family Poverty Writings

Autobiographical Notes upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: The Snare of Preparation, May 1910

Addams' autobiographical account of her education at Rockford College and her travels in Europe. This is the second of six articles excerpted from Twenty Years at Hull-House.

Education Hull-House Labor Poverty Religion Travels

Charity and Social Justice, May 19, 1910 (excerpt)

Newspaper report of Addams' speech at the conference of Charities and Correction in St. Louis discussing state of charitable work.

Charity Lectures Poverty Social Work

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

Speech to Chicago Sunday Evening Club (Excerpt), October 9, 1910

Newspaper report of Addams' speech on the need for entertainments among the poor in Chicago. The speech was given for the Sunday Evening Club.

Crime Lectures Poverty Recreation Youth

Harriet E. Sigsbee to Jane Addams, October 19, 1910

Sigsbee compliments Addams on her article in American Magazine and comments on the relationship between poverty and crime.

Child Labor Poverty

Jane Addams to Bolton Hall, November 2, 1910

Addams writes Bolton to deny being interviewed by The American Suffragette, to express her admiration for Kropotkin's Fields, Factories, and Workshops, and to invite Bolton to Hull-House.

Charity Poverty

Frances Collins Palmer to Jane Addams, January 24, 1911

Palmer asks Addams to help her discover the true circumstances of an impoverished family member living in Chicago.

Charity Finances Poverty Requests

John K. Reed to Jane Addams, November 27, 1911

Reed praises Addams for her new series of articles in McClure's Magazine and vents his frustration with the business class and their lack of care for the working class.

Business Politics Poverty White Slavery Youth

Anonymous (Justice) to Chicago Tribune Editor, December 9, 1911

The author sympathizes with the McNamara brothers, who bombed the Los Angeles Times building in California in October 1910, because they were insane but criticizes the Chicago newspapers for responding with bigotry against the Irish community.

Free Speech Poverty Race

C. H. Harris to Jane Addams, December 18, 1911

Harris asks Addams's advice about creating a series of lectures on vice and its causes.

Morality Poverty Social Welfare Temperance

Stephen Harris Moriarty to Jane Addams, February 2, 1912

Moriarty praises Addams' work.

Poverty Praise Public Opinion

The Child at the Point of Greatest Pressure, June 16, 1912

At the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Cleveland from June 12-19, Addams discusses how the difficulties of children can rouse society's greatest sentiments for charity, but that children also have for their own intrinsic value. The speech was published in the Proceedings.

Child Welfare Housing Hull-House Juvenile Delinquency Lectures Music Poverty Recreation

The Progressive Party and the Disinherited, August-September, 1912

Addams described the Progressive Party's support for the dependents of prisoners, by allowing wages they earn in prison to be sent to their families. It also supports calls for social insurance that would protect the poor in case of injury or old age. This is one of a series of articles prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

Crime Labor Poverty Prisons Social Welfare

Sera E. Wilber to Jane Addams, August 22, 1912

Wilber criticizes Addams for choosing the Progressive Party over the Socialist Party.

Labor Poverty Socialism

The Disinherited in Industry, October 5, 1912

Addams described the Progressive Party's support for the dependents of prisoners, by allowing wages they earn in prison to be sent to their families. It also supports calls for social insurance that would protect the poor in case of injury or old age.

Crime Labor Poverty Prisons Social Welfare

The Communion of the Ballot, December 14, 1912 (excerpt)

An excerpt from Addams' November 24 speech to the National Woman Suffrage Association meeting highlights her ideas about mother's pensions, immigrant socialization, and recreation.

Gender Roles Government Immigrants Poverty Social Welfare Woman Suffrage

Why Women Are Concerned with the Larger Citizenship: Philanthropy and Politics, 1913

Addams discusses how philanthropic activities become political activities, citing instances from her own work in Chicago.

Charity Juvenile Delinquency Labor Lectures Poverty Public Health Recreation Settlements Social Welfare

Aspects of Unemployment, July 1913 (fragment)

Addams discusses the economic, social, and human toll of unemployment and suggests some creative solutions being employed in England.

Labor Poverty Social Welfare Unemployment

Jane Addams: Solving the Problem of the Unemployed, September 1913

Addams discusses the economic, social, and human toll of unemployment and offers some creative solutions to the problem being employed in England. This is the ninth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and women's roles in affecting change.

Labor Poverty Social Welfare Unemployment

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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)

New Methods in Philanthropy, November 7, 1903 (excerpts) Also known as Address to the Catholic Women's League, November 7, 1903 (excerpts)

Settlement Work, June 1, 1906 (excerpt) Also known as Address at the General Federation of Women's Clubs Convention, June 1, 1906 (excerpt)

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