Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Edith Abbott and "A Sister's Memories"
  • Grace Abbott: A Biographical Timeline
  • Part 1: Immigrants
  • Introduction: Hull House Days (ca. 1952)-Edith Abbott
  • 1. The Immigrant Girl (1909)
  • 2. The Education of Foreigners in American Citizenship (1910)
  • 3. The Immigrant as a Problem in Community Planning (1917)
  • 4. Problems of the Immigrant Girl (1917)
  • Part II: Children
  • Introduction: The Maternity and Infancy Revolution (ca. 1952)-Edith Abbott
  • 5. A Constitutional Amendment (1920)6. Public Protection for Children (1924)
  • 7. Perpetuating May Day (1929)
  • 8. The Next Steps (1929)
  • 9. Boarding Out (1930)
  • 10. The Challenge of Child Welfare (1931)
  • 11. The Real American Vice (1931)
  • 12. The Washington Traffic Jam (1931)
  • 13. Why Did Child Labor Ever Develop in America? (ca. 1933)
  • 14. Promoting the Welfare of All Children (1937)
  • 15. Children and the Depression (pub. 1941)
  • Part III: Women
  • Introduction: How Women Achieve in Government (1939)-Frances Perkins
  • 16. Dorothea Dix (1926)
  • 17. Women (1933)18. The Changing Position of Women in Government (1930)
  • Postscript-Dr. Jeanne C. Marsh
  • Source Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover