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Article: Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 1994
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While historians have long considered the American settlement house a model of Progressive era reform, they have disagreed on its meaning: as reform, feminist historians most especially have cited it as the harbinger of forward-looking New Deal social policy; as social control, New Left historians have argued it helped affect the transition to corporate monopoly capitalism. In the more meliorist vein, social welfare historians have tended to see the settlement house movement, warts and all, as the last best hope of social work before it was professionalized in the 1920s. In prevailing histories of social work, pre-war settlements represent a more humane, socially-engaged era ...