USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1907, Addams was a founding member of the National Child Labor Committee, which played a significant role in passage of a Federal Child Labor Law in 1916. Addams led an initiative to establish a School of Social Work at the University of Chicago, creating institutional support for a new profession for women.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom In the USA, Jane Addams worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial laborers. She ran Hull House in Chicago, a center which helped immigrants in particular.

Detailed explanation-3: -One of the significant contributions of Jane Addams in sociology was the creation of a sociological concept that placed ethics at the centre of all sociological analysis and social life analysis. This concept is essential since it helps cooperate ethics in every sociological and social decision.

Detailed explanation-4: -She traveled the country, lecturing and writing about suffrage. When the 19th amendment passed in 1920 giving women the right to vote, Addams became a member of the League of Women Voters, to help women become informed about the candidates and the issues on the ballot.

Detailed explanation-5: -Inspired by English reformers who intentionally resided in lower-class slums, Addams, along with a college friend, Ellen Starr, moved in 1889 into an old mansion in an immigrant neighborhood of Chicago.