“My Good Italian Friends”: Vida Scudder and Boston's Circolo Italo-Americano

Abstract The Circolo Italo-Americano, a Progressive-era group of educated Italian immigrants and affluent Bostonians, was founded by settlement movement pioneer Vida Dutton Scudder to integrate Italians into American life through “friendly personal contacts,” social events, and educational opportunities. The Circolo included Italian leadership and focused on immigrants’ contributions, not on “assimilation.”

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Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History. Anne Firor ScottGender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. Noralee Frankel , Nancy S. DyeSocial Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930. Ruth Hutchinson Crocker

Signs ◽

10.1086/494988 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 455-458

Author(s):

Joanne L. Goodwin

Keyword(s):

Progressive Era ◽

American History ◽

Social Order ◽

Women's Associations ◽

Industrial Cities ◽

Settlement Movement

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michael kazin. Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. (The Working Class in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1987. Pp. xiv, 319. $24.95

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/93.2.511 ◽

1988 ◽

Keyword(s):

Working Class ◽

Progressive Era ◽

San Francisco ◽

Union Power ◽

Building Trades ◽

University Of Illinois ◽

American Life

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Rights Through Knowledge and Reason

The Progressives' Century ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300204841.003.0015 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Frymer

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Labor Market ◽

African Americans ◽

Progressive Era ◽

Black Labor ◽

American Life ◽

Department Of Labor ◽

Du Bois ◽

Societal Problems

This chapter focuses on the work of African American activists in the Department of Labor (DOL) during the Progressive era, and on two men in particular: W. E. B. Du Bois and George E. Haynes. The labor problem was in many ways at the heart of the Progressive project, and the establishment of the DOL and its forerunner, the Bureau of Labor, represented an early victory. Like many of these early institutional victories, the DOL was not a huge success. Its power was at the margins, and it rarely used such power for anything more than conciliation and tepid reformism. In the area of race, the DOL did little to disturb a racially fragmented labor market dominated by white employers and by unions that discriminated against African Americans. But the department, following the Progressive spirit of believing in the power of knowledge, science, and expertise to expose societal problems and begin the process of solving them, participated in a quite wide-ranging examination of black labor in American life. Some of this was through issued reports. Du Bois wrote three of these reports for the Bureau of Labor in the years around 1900. In addition, the DOL created the Division of Negro Economics, headed by George Haynes.

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Social reform in the US: lessons from the Progressive Era

Social Work and the Making of Social Policy ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447349150.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 71-88

Author(s):

Francisco Branco

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Progressive Era ◽

Social Reform ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

The Public ◽

Settlement Movement ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

Charity Organization ◽

The Relationship ◽

Social Reformers

This chapter examines, using a historical approach, two lines of research regarding the Progressive Era in the Unites States. The first approach concerns the relationship between social work and social policy. In the first section, the article describes the main features of and lessons from the involvement of social work pioneers in social work and social reform in the context of the public and social policies process. The second dimension analysed focuses more specifically on the methods and strategies adopted by the Settlement Movement, but also by some Charity Organization Societies’ leaders and other social reformers. Both of these approaches also concern the policy formulation and decision-making processes conceptualised and adopted by social reformers in the Progressive Era.

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Authenticity and Ethnicity

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199754281.013.003 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Jessica Ray Herzogenrath

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Progressive Era ◽

Young Women ◽

The Body ◽

Folk Dance ◽

Settlement House ◽

Settlement Houses ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Settlement Movement

During the Progressive Era, settlement workers attempted to regulate dance both within and outside settlement house walls as a method to instill proper “American” body behaviors, particularly in immigrant bodies. This essay examines the paradoxes of folk dance as encouraged by settlement workers in early-twentieth-century Chicago and New York. Settlement workers aimed to assimilate immigrants to American ideals of health, refinement, and respectability through the body; in folk dance they found a satisfying mode of nonsexualized dance, which also acted out a romanticized desire for simplicity in the midst of rapid modernization. The evidence reveals that folk dance in settlement houses traveled two paths: ethnic clubs devoted to the practice of immigrant traditions and structured classes offered to girls and young women. These developments fulfilled the project of Americanization prescribed by the settlement movement and provided a means for immigrants to continue folk practices from their home countries.

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Introduction

10.5406/illinois/9780252037788.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Eileen H. Tamura

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Progressive Era ◽

World War ◽

American Life ◽

The Face ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Great War ◽

The U.S

This introductory chapter provides an overview of Joseph Yoshisuke Kurihara's life. From his youth and until World War II, Kurihara pursued a path that he believed would enable him to live the American life, as envisioned in the Progressive Era phrase, “the promise of American life.” He enrolled in schools that offered a quality, Western-oriented education. He also embraced Christianity—the essential source of Western cultural identity at the time—endured anti-Japanese hostility directed at him, and fought as a soldier in the U.S. Army during the Great War. This dogged pursuit of a place for himself as an American in the face of jarring discouragements enabled Kurihara to absorb Western modes of thinking and behavior. As a result, he was able to navigate his way in two cultural worlds, European America and Japanese America.

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Cluttering in the Communicative Disorders Curriculum

Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders ◽

10.1044/ffd19.2.52 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 52-57

Author(s):

John A. Tetnowski

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Doctoral Students ◽

Communication Disorders ◽

Educational Opportunities ◽

Opportunities For Learning ◽

Communicative Disorders ◽

Theoretical Issues

Abstract Cluttering is discussed openly in the fluency literature, but few educational opportunities for learning more about cluttering exist in higher education. The purpose of this manuscript is to explain how a seminar in cluttering was developed for a group of communication disorders doctoral students. The major theoretical issues, educational questions, and conclusions are discussed.

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