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Settlement sociology in the progressive years
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ISBN: 9004287574 9789004287570 9789004287563 9004287566 Year: 2015 Publisher: Boston

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Settlement Sociology in the Progressive Years claims for sociology a lost history and paradigm only recently acknowledged for shaping the American sociological tradition. Williams and MacLean trace the key works of early scholar activists through the leading settlement houses in Chicago, New York and Boston. The roots of sociology as a public enterprise for social reform are restored to the canon through early research, teaching and social advocacy. The settlement paradigm of “neighborly relations” combining the visions of social gospelers and first-wave feminists will resonate for a renewed public sociology today. Key to this paradigm was the movement to "settle" in neighborhoods and become active in the struggle for social change in a period of rapid industrialization, immigration, and urbanization.


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The Settlement House Movement revisited : a transnational history
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ISBN: 1447354249 1447354257 1447354265 1447354230 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bristol, England : Policy Press,

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This book provides a historical approach to the study of the settlement house movement in relation to developments in social welfare and the profession of social work across a range of nations.

L'espace vital : du paradis terrestre à l'aménagement du territoire
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ISBN: 2080646060 9782080646064 Year: 1984 Publisher: [Paris]: Flammarion,

The women of Hull House
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ISBN: 0585062293 9780585062297 0791434877 0791434885 1438421044 9781438421049 Year: 1997 Publisher: Albany, NY State University of New York Press

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"This group biography explores the lives, work, and personal relations of nine white, middle and upper-middle-class women who were involved in the first decade of Chicago's premier social settlement. This "galaxy of stars"--As they were called in their own day - were active in innumerable political, social, and religious reform efforts." "The Women of Hull House refutes the humanistic interpretation of the social settlement movement. Its spiritual base is highlighted as the author describes it as the practical/ethical side of the social gospel movement and as an attempt to transform late nineteenth-century evangelical and doctrinal Christian religion. While the women of Hull House differed from one another in their theological beliefs and were often critical of orthodox Christianity, they were motivated by Christian ideals." "By showing the interconnections of spirituality, vocation, and friendship, the author argues that individual actions for social changes must take place within communities which provide a level of uniting vision yet allow for diverse actions and viewpoints."--Jacket.

Settlements, social change, and community action
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ISBN: 1846422779 1417504471 9781417504473 9781846422775 1853027642 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Philadelphia Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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Reflecting the current emphasis in social policy on the ideas of community and active citizenship, the contributors to this book develop the basic settlement concepts of strong communities and links across groups, and apply them to current policy developments in community responsibility, the role of voluntary work and the future of social care.


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A City for Children : Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950
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ISBN: 022615615X Year: 2014 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed the urban fabric of these newly diverse, plural metropolises. In A City for Children, Marta Gutman focuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy. Often without the financial means to build from scratch, women did not tend to conceive of urban land as a blank slate to be wiped clean for development. Instead, Gutman shows how, over and over, women turned private houses in Oakland into orphanages, kindergartens, settlement houses, and day care centers, and in the process built the charitable landscape-a network of places that was critical for the betterment of children, families, and public life. The industrial landscape of Oakland, riddled with the effects of social inequalities and racial prejudices, is not a neutral backdrop in Gutman's story but an active player. Spanning one hundred years of history, A City for Children provides a compelling model for building urban institutions and demonstrates that children, women, charity, and incremental construction, renovations, alterations, additions, and repurposed structures are central to the understanding of modern cities.


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How it works
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ISBN: 1282426389 9786612426384 0226234118 9780226234113 9780226234083 0226234088 9780226234090 0226234096 0226234088 9780226234083 9781282426382 6612426381 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Of the some sixty thousand vacant properties in Philadelphia, half of them are abandoned row houses. Taken as a whole, these derelict homes symbolize the city's plight in the wake of industrial decline. But a closer look reveals a remarkable new phenomenon-street-level entrepreneurs repurposing hundreds of these empty houses as facilities for recovering addicts and alcoholics. How It Works is a compelling study of this recovery house movement and its place in the new urban order wrought by welfare reform. To find out what life is like in these recovery houses,


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The selected papers of Jane Addams.
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ISBN: 1283077310 9786613077318 0252090373 9780252090370 9781283077316 6613077313 0252033493 9780252033490 Year: 2009 Publisher: Urbana University of Illinois Press

Lower East Side Memories : A Jewish Place in America
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ISBN: 0691007470 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford, England : Princeton University Press,

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Manhattan's Lower East Side stands for Jewish experience in America. With the possible exception of African-Americans and Harlem, no ethnic group has been so thoroughly understood and imagined through a particular chunk of space. Despite the fact that most American Jews have never set foot there--and many come from families that did not immigrate through New York much less reside on Hester or Delancey Street--the Lower East Side is firm in their collective memory. Whether they have been there or not, people reminisce about the Lower East Side as the place where life pulsated, bread tasted better, relationships were richer, tradition thrived, and passions flared. This was not always so. During the years now fondly recalled (1880-1930), the neighborhood was only occasionally called the Lower East Side. Though largely populated by Jews from Eastern Europe, it was not ethnically or even religiously homogenous. The tenements, grinding poverty, sweatshops, and packs of roaming children were considered the stuff of social work, not nostalgia and romance. To learn when and why this dark warren of pushcart-lined streets became an icon, Hasia Diner follows a wide trail of high and popular culture. She examines children's stories, novels, movies, museum exhibits, television shows, summer-camp reenactments, walking tours, consumer catalogues, and photos hung on deli walls far from Manhattan. Diner finds that it was after World War II when the Lower East Side was enshrined as the place through which Jews passed from European oppression to the promised land of America. The space became sacred at a time when Jews were simultaneously absorbing the enormity of the Holocaust and finding acceptance and opportunity in an increasingly liberal United States. Particularly after 1960, the Lower East Side gave often secularized and suburban Jews a biblical, yet distinctly American story about who they were and how they got here. Displaying the author's own fondness for the Lower East Side of story books, combined with a commitment to historical truth, Lower East Side Memories is an insightful account of one of our most famous neighborhoods and its power to shape identity.

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Immigrants --- Jews --- Social life and customs --- Intellectual life --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) --- New York (State) --- LES (New York, N.Y.) --- Nyu Yorḳ (State) --- NYS --- Niyū Yūrk (State) --- Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork (State) --- Shtat Nʹi︠u︡ Ĭork --- State of New York --- State of N. York --- NY (State) --- N.Y. (State) --- N. York (State) --- نيويورك (State) --- ولاية نيويورك --- Wilāyat Niyū Yūrk --- Штат Нью-Ёрк --- Нью-Ёрк (State) --- Ню Йорк (State) --- Nova York (State) --- С̧ӗнӗ Йорк (State) --- Śĕnĕ Ĭork (State) --- Efrog Newydd (State) --- Kin Yótʼááh Deezʼá Hahoodzo --- Nííyóó Hahoodzo --- New Yorgi osariik --- Νέα Υόρκη (State) --- Nea Yorkē (State) --- Πολιτεία της Νέας Υόρκης --- Politeia tēs Neas Yorkēs --- Nueva York (State) --- Estado de Nueva York --- Nov-Jorkio --- Ŝtato de Nov-Jorkio --- État de New York --- Nua-Eabhrac (State) --- York Noa (State) --- Eabhraig Nuadh (State) --- Estado de Nova York --- Néu-Yok (State) --- Шин Йорк (State) --- Shin Ĭork (State) --- 뉴욕 주 --- Nyuyok-ju --- 뉴욕 (State) --- Nyuyok (State) --- Nuioka (State) --- Nú Yọk (State) --- Tchiaq York (State) --- New York Isifunda --- New York-fylki --- ניו יורק (State) --- מדינת ניו יורק --- Medinat Nyu Yorḳ --- Stat Evrek Nowydh --- Evrek Nowydh (State) --- Nou Yòk (State) --- Novum Eboracum (State) --- N̦ujorka (State) --- Niujorko valstija --- Niujorkas (State) --- Niorche (State) --- Њујорк (State) --- Njujork (State) --- Yancuīc York (State) --- ニューヨーク州 --- Nyū Yōku-shū --- ニューヨーク (State) --- Nyū Yōku (State) --- New York (Colony) --- Ethnic relations. --- Adler, Jacob. --- Aleichem, Sholem. --- American Vaudeville Theater. --- Baker, Zachary. --- Bible/Biblical. --- Café Metropole. --- Cahan, Abraham. --- Crossing Delancey. --- Current Literature. --- Diamond, Neil. --- Dissent. --- Eastern Europe. --- Eldridge Street Project. --- Ellis Island. --- Esther-Khaye. --- Forward. --- Franklin, Benjamin. --- Glackens, William. --- Goldreich, Gloria. --- Gropper, William. --- Hapgood, Hutchins. --- Humoresque. --- Industrial Removal Office. --- Jerusalem. --- Kelley, Florence. --- Levine, Lawrence. --- Lincoln, Abraham. --- Margolin, Elias. --- Mayflower. --- Raphaelson, Samuel. --- Rischin, Moses. --- Sanders, Ronald. --- Tenement Museum. --- The Jazz Singer. --- Uncle Moses. --- World War II/Holocaust. --- Yezierska, Anzia. --- Yiddish theater. --- Zagajewski, Adam. --- Zueblin, Charles. --- anti-Semitism. --- booksellers. --- business. --- food. --- garment industry. --- history. --- journalism. --- philanthropy. --- pogroms. --- settlement houses. --- summer camps. --- East Side, Lower (New York, N.Y.) --- Imigranci --- Żydzi --- obyczaje i zwyczaje --- życie intelektualne --- Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone) --- stosunki międzyetniczne.

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