Jane Addam's Hull House

In 1889, the most influential settlement house was Jane Addams’s Hull House residing in Chicago. With the assistance of the Hull House, immigrant women were able to take residence as they were away from their families. Addams’s established the Hull House as a way to bring together its impoverished residents from their class and ethnicity and teach them American values and its culture lead them into the American society. The hull house was also a day nursery for children whose mothers were laboring at work all day. Addams’s had a dislike for the economic problem of young mothers forced to abandon their children due to their work strain “how stupid it is to let mothers of young children spend their in coarser work” (385) and sixteen years later established the Children’s House. Later, the Hull House also wanted to incorporated its residents culture by establishing the Hull House Labor Museum, which …show more content…
Addams’s grew up in a privileged background, she graduated from Rockford Seminary in 1882 and did not have to participate in paid labor much similar to her peers in the same social standing. In her autobiography, she described that it was a overall pleasant experience to live at the Hull House and shies away from negative instances that would put the hull house in a unfavorable light. Addams’s viewpoint of the personal stories is biased as she is witness’s these residents thought the eyes of the higher authority at the settlement house. Although, Addams was excellent mediator between Chicago’s “violent class conflict” (368) but her descriptions poverty stricken immigrants have been dramatization that leads to it events being less accurate. However, Jane Addams’s Hull House accomplished great things for the community and was a symbol and step into the right direction of public