Spearheads for Reform, the Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2731891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard K Morton |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 345 |
| Publication date | 1968-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Spearheads for reform: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914, Allen Freeman Davis, 1967 |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2711224 |
| OpenAlex | W2059229913 |
| Language | EN |
Allen Davis looks at the influence of settlement-house workers on the reform movement of the progressive era in Chicago, New York, and Boston. These workers were idealists in the way they approached the future, but they were also realists who knew how to organize and use the American political system to initiate change. They lobbied for a wide range of legislation and conducted statistical surveys that documented the need for reform. After World War I, settlement workers were replaced gradually by social workers who viewed their job as a profession, not a calling, and who did not always share the crusading zeal of their forerunners. Nevertheless, the settlement workers who were active from the 1880s to the 1920s left an important legacy: they steered public opinion and official attitudes toward the recognition that poverty was more likely caused by the social environment than by individual weakness
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Economic history · Human settlement · Movement (music · Political science · Reform movement · Sociology · American History and Culture · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Race, History, and American Society
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Writing Immigrant Aid
Health Advocacy Organizations and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Reforming Reform
Intellectuals, Cities, and Citizenship in the United States
Medicine and Patriarchal Violence
Defining Social Justice in a Socially Unjust World
Two Leaders, Two Utopias
Women, Sexual Morality, and Economic Dependency in Early U.S. Deportation Policy
Teaching the Day After
The cycle of reform
Condiciones de emergencia de un movimiento americano de protección de la infancia
The Selfless and the Helpless
American Women and the Professionalization of Economics
The "Country Life Movement" and the American Churches
Interest-Seeking as Sense-Making
Funding Immigrant Organizations
"Hull-House" in Downtown Tokyo
As the pendulum swings
A shop is not a home
Sydney Nevile
Dos formas distintas de investigar el problema del paro en los albores de la encuesta social. El juicio público frente a la taxonomía
Social work and social action
Americanization and Cultural Preservation in Seattle's Settlement House
The Settlement House Tradition
Child care
Give This Man Work!”
Continuing an Alternative View of Public Administration
Women and trade unions 1870–1920
Social feminism in the 1920s
Hidden Social Agendas and Housing Standards
Public reputation and organised crime
Child Welfare, the Media, and Capacity Building
The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in the 20th-century West
Jane Addams, pragmatism and cultural policy
Playin’ farmer
Gender and the Origins of Modern Social Policies in Britain and the United States
Direct Democracy” and Social Justice
Reconstituting the Study of American Political Thought in a Regime-Change Perspective
Gender and Professionalization in the Origins of the U.S. Welfare State
A Reevaluation of the New York Court of Appeals
Community food security and environmental justice
Relationship and Leadership
A Microhistory of Cross-Class Feminism in New York City, 1907–1911
Linking Politics and People
Linking Clients and Policy
An alliance for power
The Kingsley House Extension Program
Robert A. Woods and the Settlement House Impulse
The West Point of the Philanthropic Service”
The Lost Link
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Education in a Multi-Ethnoracial Setting
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Intellectuals
Nativist Cosmopolitans
Neighborhood Planning in Historical Perspective
Civic Play-Housekeeping
Caroline Bartlett Crane and the history of sociology
Ghosts of Sociologies Past
Some observations on the history of large philanthropic foundations in Britain and the United States
The Social Survey and the Puzzle of Australian Sociology
Of Means and Ends” Revisited
A Critical Look at a Contemporary Welfare-to-Work Program in the Light of the Historic Settlement Ideal
Women's Associations and the Enactment of Mothers' Pensions in the United States
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Pragmatism and empirical sociology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |