![]() ![]() ![]() With their neighbourhood work, they contributed to a more structural political focus. The Hull House group professionalised the contribution of women in social work. From 1900 onwards the United States saw a wave of interest in women’s emancipation, new social laws and attention paid to social and racial tensions. They became the female face of the democratisation movement in the Progressive Era. Following the model of Toynbee Hall, “Addams refused to call her neighbors clients or cases and could not fully respect younger social workers, for whom service meant an eight-hour day and a home far from the slums.” (Franklin, 1986) Addams not only worked with the poor but also engaged in political action aimed at establishing new laws to protect them.Īddams assembled a group of very committed young women. It quickly developed into a real action centre with plenty of room for children, education for adults, culture and focus on social progress. Together with her friend Ellen Starr, she started Hull House, the first settlement house in Near West Side, a neighbourhood with plenty of European immigrants. After her studies, she visited Toynbee Hall in London and was inspired to develop a very similar initiative in Chicago in 1889. Jane Addams (1860-1935) was born in Cedarville, Illinois in a well-off Quaker family. ![]()
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