Edith Abbott

1876 – 1957

• Social welfare and professional education
• The tenements of Chicago, 1908-1935
• Historical aspects of the immigration problem
• Some American pioneers in social welfare
• The administration of the aid-to-mothers law in Illinois
• The Family and social service in the 1920's; two documents
• The great painters in relation to the European tradition
• The one hundred and one county jails of Illinois and why they ought to be abolished
• The real jail problem
• The wage-earning woman and the state
• The wages of unskilled labor in the United States, 1850-1900
• Truancy and non-attendance in the Chicago schools