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DEMOCRACY A N D
SOCIAL ETHICS
BY
JANE ADDAMS
HULL-HOUSE, CHICAGO
Weto gørít
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1920
CopyiueHT, 190»,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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3. B. Cnihing k Co. — Berwick k Smitk
Norwood Mau. U.S-A.
PREFATORY NOTE
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
PAGS
INTRODUCTION I
CHAPTER II
CHARITABLE EFFORT 13
CHAPTER III
FlLIAL R E L A T I O N S 71
CHAPTER IV
HOUSEHOLD A D J U S T M E N T I02
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
EDUCATIONAL METHODS 178
CHAPTER VII
POLITICAL R E F O R M 221
INDEX *79
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DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL
ETHICS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
is
CHAPTER II
CHARITABLE EFFORT
70
CHAPTER III
FlLIAL RELATIONS
lOI
CHAPTER IV
HOUSEHOLD A D I U S T M E N T
INDUSTRIAL AMELIORATION
N 177
CHAPTER VI
EDUCATIONAL METHODS
320
C H A P T E R VII
POLITICAL REFORM
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INDEX
Alderman, basis of his political suc- Domestic service, problem of, in
cess, 226, 228,240, 243, 248, 267; France, England, and America,
his influence on morals of the 135; industrial difficulty ol,
American boy, 251, 255, 256; on 106; moral issues of, 106.
standard of life, 257; his power,
232, 233, 235, 246, 260; his social Education, attempts at industriai,
duties, 234, 236, 243, 250. 201; commercialism in, 196,
Art and the vvorkingman, 219, 225. 201; in commercialism, 216; in
technical schools, 201; lack of
" Boss," the, ignorant man's de- adriptation in, 199, 208, 212; of
pendence on, 260, 266. industrial workers, 180, 193, 199,
Business college, the, 197. 219; offset to oversjjecialization,
211; public school and, 190,192;
Charity, administration of, 14, 22;
relation of, to the child, 180, 185,
neighborly relations in, 29, 230;
193; relation of, to the immigrant,
organized, 25; standards in, 15,
181-186; university extension
27, 32. 38, 49, 58; scientif c vs.
lectures and settlements, 199;
human relations in, 64.
workingmen's lecture courses,
Child labor, premature work, 41,
214.
188; first laws concerning, 167,
170. Educators, mistakes of, 212; new
City, responsibilities of, 266. demands on, 178, 192, 201, 211.
Civil service law, its enforcement,
Family claim, the, 4,74, 78; daugh-
231. 233- ter's college education, 82; em-
Commercial and industrial hfe,
ployer's vs. domestic's, 123, 124;
social position of, compared, 193.
on the daughter, 82; on the son,
CommerciaHsm and education,
iôid.
190-199, 216; morals captured
Family life, misconception of, 116.
by, 264; polytechnic schools
Filial relations, clash of moral
taken by, 202.
codes, 94.
Coôperation, 153, 158.
Funerals, attitude of simple people
Cooper, Peter, 202.
toward, 238.
Dayton, Ohio, factory at, 216.
Death and burials among simple Household employee, the, 108,109,
people, 238. character of, 112; domestic vs.
279
INDEX
factory, i i 6 , i i 8 , 119, 122; isola- Morality, natural basis of, 268;
tion of, 109, I I I , 117, 120, 132; personal and social, 6, 176, 103.
morals ot, 125; unnatural rela-
tion of, 113, 120, 121, 126, 127; Philanthropic standpoint, the, its
unreasonable demands on, 113, dangers, 150, 155-157.
115 ; residence clubs tor, 133; so- Philanthropist, the, 154, 175-176.
cial position of, 114, 119, 122. Political corruption, ethical devel-
Houbchold employer, the, uncíemo- opment in, 270; formation of
cratic ethics of, 116; reform of, reform clubs, 246; greatest press-
in relation to employee, 126. ure of, 260; individual and so-
Household, the, advantages and cial aspect of, 264; lenit-ncy in
disadvantages of factory work regard to, 239; responsibility for,
over, 129; competition oí íactory 256, 263; seiling of votes, 244-
work wiih, 128; difî culties of the 246; street railway and saloon
small, 135; industrial isoiation interest, 262.
of, 117; industry of, translerred Political leaders, causes of success
to factory, 104, 105; lack of prog- of, 224.
ress in, 117; origin of, 104; so- Political standards, 228, 229, 251-
cial vs. individual aspects of, 253, 261; compared with Ben-
103; suburban difîficulties of, jamin Franklin's, 255.
134; wages in, 131.
Hull-house experiences, 43, 53, 58, Referendum method, the, 164.
59, 240, 247. Reformer, the, ethics of, 270.
H u m a n life, value of, 7, 178. Reform movements in politics,
causes of failure in, 222, 240,
Individual action vs. associated, 262, 272, 274; business men's
137. 153. 158; advantages of, 158, attitude toward, 265.
162; limitations of, 165; moral Rumford, Count, 117.
evolution involved in, 226. Ruskin, 219.
Individual vs. social needs, 155,269.
Individual vs. social virtues, 224,
227, 265. Saloon, the, 243, 264.
Italian immigrant, the, conception Social claim, the, 4 , 7 7 ; child study
of abstract virtue among, 229; and, 92, 180; misplaced energy
dependence of, on their children, and, 90.
184; education of, 185; new con- Social virtues, code of employer,
ditions of life of, 181. 143, 148; code of laboring man,
ibid.
Juvenile criminal, the, evolution of,
53-56, 187. Technical schools, 201; adaptation
of, to workingmen, 204; compro-
Labor, division of, 210, 213; re- mises in, 203; polytechnic insti-
action from, 215. tutions, 202 ; textile schools, 203;
Law and order, 172, 174, 234. women in, ibid.
Thrift, individualism of, 31, 40, 212.
Moral fact and moral idea, 227, T r a d e s unions, 148, 158, 167, 169,
229.273- 171; sympathetic stríkes, 174.
280
INDEX
Worldngman, the, ambition of, for 311; historical perspectÍTe in tbe
his children, 191, 358; art in re- work oífiåid.; orgaaixatãons of,
latíon to, 318; charity of, 154; 314; standards íor pol tical can'
erening classes and sodal enter- didate, 357.
tainment fw, 189; grievanoe of.
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