Democracy and Social Ethics - Softcover

Addams, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481253697 ISBN 13: 9781481253697

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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A powerful and prophetic call to social justice from one of America's greatest reformers.

In Democracy and Social Ethics, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams—founder of Chicago's Hull House—offers a profound and moving reflection on the moral obligations of a democratic society. Based on two decades of firsthand work with poverty-stricken immigrants, child laborers, and working-class families, Addams writes with understated passion and unshakable empathy for those society left behind.

Through deeply personal case studies and sharp moral analysis, Addams addresses topics still painfully relevant today:

• Why young women chose factory work over domestic service—despite harsh conditions

• How working-class people lived and died on pennies per hour, often disabled by their 30s

• Why many children abandoned school before high school to support struggling families

• The deep suspicion the poor held toward political reformers who failed to understand their lives

• Why reform must begin with empathy, not charity, and why democracy must become a way of life

“A reformer who really knew the people and their great human needs, who believed it was the business of government to serve them...”

Addams makes the case for social security, minimum wage laws, child labor laws, and public education—decades before these reforms became law. She argues that the solution to poverty is not pity, but municipal investment, structural justice, and ethical citizenship.

Written in the Progressive Era but strikingly relevant to today's ongoing battles over economic inequality, workers' rights, and the role of government, Democracy and Social Ethics is a foundational text for anyone who believes in reform with compassion.

This book is a must-read for students, teachers, reformers, policy makers, and advocates for equity—and a reminder that the fight for dignity and justice must never be taken for granted.

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Jane Addams (1860 – 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, she was the most prominent reformer of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace. She said that if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live, they needed the vote to be effective in doing so. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She is increasingly recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1481253697
• ISBN 13: 9781481253697
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 82
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