An excerpt from Jane Addams’s book, Twenty Years at Hull-House, 1910.

Addams’ memoir recounts the first twenty years of the settlement house she co-founded with Ellen Gates Starr in 1889. This chapter focuses on the lack of labor laws in the period. Hull-House settlement workers pushed for the eight-hour workday, the end to child labor, and other important occupational and safety protections.

Citation Information
Addams, Jane, excerpt from “Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/ba433d26fb668a65bdd2a75204214cf8.
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