Examples of Settlement Worker in the following topics:
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- Equally important were the Workers' Compensation Laws, which made employers legally responsible for injuries sustained by employees at work.
- Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.
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- It established "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, where volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live in hopes of sharing knowledge and culture with, and alleviating the poverty, of their low-income neighbors.
- By 1913, there were 413 settlements in 32 states.
- These and other settlement houses inspired the establishment of settlement schools to serve isolated rural communities in Appalachia.
- The settlement-house concept was continued by Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker hospitality houses in the 1930s.
- A founder of Hull House, Jane Addams (September 6, 1860–May 21, 1935), along with being a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, was also a social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
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- As the United States industrialized in the nineteenth century, immigrants and workers from the countryside were housed in tenements.
- As the United States became more industrialized during the 1800s, immigrants and workers from the countryside increasingly lived in former middle-class houses and other buildings such as warehouses, which were bought and divided into small dwellings.
- In some cities, social reformers built "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.
- The settlement houses provided services such as daycare, education, and healthcare to improve the lives of the poor in these areas.
- The most famous settlement house in the United States is Chicago's Hull House, founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 after Addams visited Toynbee Hall within the previous two years.
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- When the railway workers turned down a proposed settlement, Truman seized control of the railways and threatened to draft striking workers into the armed forces.
- Although the resolution of the crippling railway strike made for stirring political theater, it actually cost Truman politically: his proposed solution was seen by many as high-handed, and labor voters, already wary of Truman's handling of workers' issues, were deeply alienated.
- Much of the growth came from the movement of low income farm workers into better paying jobs in the towns and cities—a process largely completed by 1960.
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- Labor
unions, or associations of workers with the purpose of consolidating bargaining
power and protecting workers' rights, grew very rapidly during World War I.
- Strike busters were brought in to fill the positions and Harding
proposed a settlement giving shop workers concessions,
but railroad owners objected and Harding had to deploy the National Guard and
2,200 U.S. marshals to keep the peace.
- Unemployment rarely dipped below 5% in the
1920s, and few workers feared real wage losses.
- Seven men, including Loray Mill workers, were acquitted of the crime.
- Workers, including an 11-year-old boy holding his coat, outside the Loray Mill in Gastonia, N.C.
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- Indentured servitude was a form of unfree labor used to meet the great demand for workers in the early years of colonial settlement.
- In colonial North America, farmers, planters, and shopkeepers found it very difficult to hire free workers, primarily because cash was short and it was so easy for those workers to set up their own farms.
- Consequently, the more common solution was to pay the passage of a young worker from England or Germany, who would work for several years to pay off his or her travel costs.
- Workers (usually Europeans, including Irish, Scottish, English, or German immigrants) immigrated to Colonial America in substantial numbers as indentured servants, particularly to the British Thirteen Colonies.
- The expansion of staple crop production in the colonies led to an increased demand for skilled workers, and the price of indentured agricultural labor increased.
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- The purpose of the settlement houses was to raise the standard of living of urbanites by providing adult education and cultural enrichment programs.
- With this expansion, the dangers to the railroad worker increased.
- Under FELA, railroad workers who are not covered by regular workers' compensation laws are able to sue companies over their injury claims.
- Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
- With its innovative social, educational, and artistic programs, Hull House became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920, to almost 500 settlement houses nationally.
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- But the economic downturn greatly increased the numbers and concentrations in urban settlements, nearby soup kitchens and other charitable organizations.
- Homeless people formed settlements on empty land which generally consisted of tents and small shacks.
- Many shantytown residents were former workers who had construction skills and were able to build their houses out of stone.
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- Known as the "Pacific Railroad" when it opened, it served as a vital link for trade, commerce, and travel and opened up vast regions of the North American heartland for settlement.
- Most Chinese workers spoke only rudimentary or no English, and the supervisors typically only learned rudimentary Chinese.
- Most of the men received between $1 and $3 per day, the same as unskilled white workers; but the workers imported directly from China sometimes received less.
- Usually the workers lived in camps built near their work site.
- Workers celebrating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869.
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- In the 1880s, blacks bought more than 20,000 acres of land in Kansas, and several of the settlements made during this time still exist today (such as Nicodemus, Kansas, founded in 1877).
- As a result, many Hispanics became permanent migrant workers, seeking seasonal employment in farming, mining, ranching, and the railroads.
- Migrant workers in the United States have come from many different sources, and have been subject to different work experiences.
- At the turn of the twentieth century, workers from Mexico and the Philippines began to enter the United States to work as cheap agricultural laborers.
- On the other hand, workers from Catholic countries, such as Ireland and Germany, were subject to a number of prejudices.