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The Business Woman's Opportunity for Philanthropy, November 19, 1901

Newspaper coverage of Addams' November 19 address to the Chicago Business Woman's Club linking child labor to laziness in adults.

Child Labor Hull-House Lectures Philanthropy

Speech at the Child-Saving Conference, January 30, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams and Bodine discuss changes needed in compulsory education rules to make them more effective.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 6, 1902

Addams invites Blaine to a speech she is giving at the Chicago Woman's Club.

Lectures Requests

Address to the Chicago Business Women's Club, April, 1902

Addams addresses the Chicago Business Women's Club on factors that may cause children to grow into "tramps."

Child Labor Child Welfare Crime Lectures

The Newer Ideals of Peace, July 9, 1902

Addams's second of two lectures on the topic of "Newer Ideals of Peace," this one about the impact of labor and trade on international relations.

England Industry Jobs Labor Russia

Speech to the Chicago Business Woman's Club, November 19, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses woman's capacity for bad behavior and that women's philanthropy should be more active in areas like child labor.

Child Labor Lectures Philanthropy Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, December 29, 1902

Addams writes Kelley about a child labor bibliography, work with charities, and Margaret Kelley's injury playing basketball.

Charity Friends Publishing

Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Houses, "Newsboy Conditions in Chicago," 1903

A 28-page illustrated pamphlet outlining the work and social conditions of newsboys and newsgirls, based on a two-day intensive investigation. In it the Committee proposes revisions in child labor laws to curb the worst excesses.

Child Labor Children Gambling Legislation Social Welfare

Samuel Gompers to Jane Addams, March 10, 1903

Gompers thanks Addams for writing an article on child labor to be published in the American Federationist.

Child Labor

Child Labor and Pauperism, May 9, 1903

Addams describes the plight of child labor and education in Chicago, especially in the case of immigrants.

Child Labor Children Education Immigrants Industry Labor

Child Labor and Pauperism, May 9, 1903 (draft)

Addams' draft speech, on child labor and education, given at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in Atlanta.

Child Labor Children Consumerism Education Industry Labor Poverty

Address to the National Conference of Charities and Correction, May 9, 1903 (excerpt)

An excerpt of the talk given by Addams at the National Conference of Charities and Correction of 1903 on the effects of child labor.

Charity Child Labor Lectures Poverty

Victor Fremont Lawson to Jane Addams, September 26, 1903

Lawson notes that he has heard that Addams seeks a change in the newsboy ordinance and wants to discuss it with J. C. Schaffer.

Legislation

Child labor as a Factor in the Increase of Pauperism, October 4, 1903

Addams recounts some of the ways child labor has ruined the future of those children exposed to it.

Child Labor Child Welfare Consumerism Labor Writings

Jane Addams to Dimies T. S. Denison and the General Federation of Women's Clubs, ca. December 1903

Addams writes to the members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs regarding the organization's work with child labor and the letter

Child Labor Social Welfare

Stanley McCormick to Jane Addams, January 12, 1904

McCormick agrees to join the National Child-Labor Committee and explains that he has not made a decision yet about Richard T. Ely's request.

Child Labor Requests

Edgar Gardner Murphy to Jane Addams, January 18, 1904

Murphy seeks to interest Stanley McCormick and Anita Blaine in joining the National Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 20, 1904

Addams encloses a message from Edgar Murphy and urges Blaine to support it.

Child Labor Requests

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, February 1, 1904

Addams tells Kelley that she has joined the Child Labor Committee and asks about Kelley's son, John.

Child Labor Friends Health

The Consumer's League as an Expression of Social Obligation (summary), March 21, 1904

Addams discusses the importance of the Consumer's League in pushing for child labor reforms.

Introductory Note to Children in American Street Trades, [1905]

Addams provides an introduction for a reprint of Myron E. Adams' article published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, on the working conditions of newspaper boys.

Child Welfare Labor Settlement Movement

Introductory Note to Children in American Street Trades, [1905]

Addams provides an introduction for a reprint of Myron E. Adams' article published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, on the working conditions of newspaper boys.

Child Labor Labor Settlements