Woman's Work in Municipalities (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Mary Ritter Beard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331281660 ISBN 13 : 9781331281665

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Woman’s Work in Municipalities offers a grounded look at how women helped shape city life through public service, reform, and civic action. This nonfiction study examines early 20th‑century efforts to organize work in municipal governments, schools, housing, health, and social services. It highlights how women organized, studied, and pushed for reforms in administration, police, welfare, and recreation, grounding its analysis in real programs and investigations.

- Explore how women built training networks, designed public services, and bridged education with city governance.
- Learn about the social and racial challenges of urban life, and how reformers addressed immigration, assimilation, and equal access to public resources.
- See how committees, bureaus, and clubs connected communities to local government and to improvements in health, housing, and schooling.
- Understand the development of public recreation, social centers, and municipal projects framed around community needs.

Ideal for readers of urban history, women’s history, and early 20th‑century social reform, this edition shines a light on the practical work that helped cities adapt to modern life and empowered women to participate in public decision‑making.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The plan of this volume demands a few words of explanation. It was originally intended to be a collection of readings illustrating the varied phases of womens work in municipalities, but an examination of the available literature failed to reveal succinct, up-to-date summaries of the several important branches of that work. It was therefore necessary to search the records of hundreds of organizations and societies in order to obtain a just view of the extent and character of the labors of women for civic improvement of all kinds. Accordingly the volume as finally drafted combines both readings and original surveys. The method followed has been dominated by a fourfold purpose: (i) to give something like an adequate notion of the extent and variety of womens interests and activities in cities and towns without attempting a statistical summary or evaluation; (2) to indicate, in their own words, the spirit in which women have approached some of their most important problems; (3) to show to women already at work and those just becoming interested in civic matters, the interrelation of each particular effort with larger social problems; and (4) to reflect the general tendencies of modern social work as they appear under the guidance of men and women alike. The task has been difficult owing to the immense amount of material which months of research accumulated and the limitations of space which made necessary the compression of important narrative and descriptive accounts within a narrow compass.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331281660
• ISBN 13: 9781331281665
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 361
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