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Prefatory note / by Jane Addams -- Map notes and comments / by Agnes Sinclair Holbrook -- The sweating-system / by Florence Kelley -- Wage-earning children / by Florence Kelley and Alzina P. Stevens -- Receipts and expenditures of cloakmakers in Chicago / by Isabel Eaton -- The Chicago ghetto / by Charles Zeublin -- The Bohemian people in Chicago / by Josefa Humpal Zeman -- Remarks upon the Italian colony in Chicago / by Alessandro Mastro-Valerio -- The Cook county charities / by Julia C. Lathrop -- Art and labor / by Ellen Gates Starr -- The settlement as a factor in the labor movement / by Jane Addams -- Appendix -- Hull-House: a social settlement.

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