Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, Kathleen V

Discusses how reformers changed the face of the United States with their work on behalf of the poor and the creation of settlement houses.

Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in Ameri

"Although the two intertwined at first, the contributions of these "settlement women" to the development of the administrative state have been largely lost as t