ENVS 2200 Lecture Notes - Jane Addams, Hull House, Wicket-Keeper
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The main argument of parker and short"s readings was about how the urban city landscape was surveyed, destroyed and rebuilt, and criticized to socially reform and acknowledge the poor developments to better the labour conditions. Parker"s reading talks about engels, who described the industrial revolution as driven by technology with dreadful living conditions, poor housing and high death rates. Parker"s reading stated that the industrial workers became a source of social stability. On the same theme, short"s reading talks about mayhew who was a pioneer in publishing the history of the people living in these dreadful" conditions. Another activist, riis, published the infancy rates and mortality rates used to show poor hygiene and overcrowding of working class labor and their unpleasant lives. Booth contributed by surveying the socio-economic information street-by-street and then used a color coded map to illustrate that 35% of london lived on or below the bread line.