HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sweatshop, Jane Addams, Settlement Movement
13 Feb 2017
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Response to mass urbanization, industrialization, and mass immigration: broad loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about significant change in american social and political life . Progressives and government: wanted government to become more orderly, efficient, and honest (get rid of political machines) Establishing organizations for poor, children, workers, immigrants, prostitutes. Women initiated/led some important organizations/movements: high points of women engagement in politics. Provided services and classes for immigrants, workers and poor working class in urban centres: white middle-class settlement house workers lived in slums with their clients. Settlement house workers lobby government for better city services: clean drinking water, stricter building codes, laws to protect workers, women and children (anti-sweatshop/labour laws) Many states secure sweatshop legislation through lobbying. 1893: illinois passes 1st anti-sweatshop legislation largely due to settlement house workers (florence kelley) Victorian concepts of femininity still severely impaired women"s involvement in business. They are designed to assert control over immigrants and working class.
