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Reviewed by Mary Jo Deegan | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.3 | The History Cooperative
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September, 2008
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Hull-House Maps and Papers
A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions

By Residents of Hull-House, a Social Settlement. Introduction by Rima Lunin Schultz
(Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Pp. 178. Illustrations, notes, appendix, index. $50.00.)

Citizen
Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy

By Louise W. Knight
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 582. Photographs, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50)

Hull-House Maps and Papers was a groundbreaking text published in 1895 by the residents of Hull House and edited by Jane Addams. They described and measured group patterns associated with immigrants, working conditions, specific laborers, labor unions, social settlements, and art. Women's moral agency was central to their use of social science to improve democracy and the lives of the disenfranchised. This book is a towering statement by early sociologists, especially women, and an outstanding example of the application of knowledge in the community. 1
      Hull-House residents continued to map cultural, social, political, and demographic information in their neighborhood for the next forty years. As the neighborhood was increasingly studied (e.g. by occupations, family size, housing, milk quality, food use, and epidemiology), the findings were charted and hung on the walls of the settlement house for the neighbors to see and discuss. . . .
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