Sentence examples for settlement workers from inspiring English sources

Later that year labour leaders Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and Leonora O'Reilly and settlement workers Lillian Wald and Jane Addams helped found the WTUL, and by 1904 the organization had branches in Chicago, New York City, and Boston.

The first international Conference of Settlement Workers, held in London in 1922, led to the organization in 1926 of the International Federation of Settlements and Neighbourhood Centres, which, with headquarters in Utrecht, Netherlands, is represented by observers at the United Nations.

Without any formal ideological or political constraints, the settlement workers responded to the needs of the neighborhood by starting project after project.

Ruskin also influenced Arnold Toynbee and other future settlement workers by identifying the problems in large industrial cities and calling for reforms foreshadowing the safety nets typical of later welfare states.

Club women and settlement workers believed that they could upgrade the quality of life by cleaning house in local, state, and federal entities or agencies; women workers turned to unions and the National Women's Trade Union League to fight for better wages and working conditions.

Settlement workers say the government services refugees require to properly integrate into society are already operating beyond capacity.

She was professional settlement worker in Educational Alliance when he met her.

NEW YORK — An appeal is addressed by Miss G. Trenholm, the settlement worker, to fashionable women to inaugurate an era of modest dressing.

In 1903 she attended the annual convention of the AF of L, and with William E. Walling, a New York settlement worker, she organized the national Women's Trade Union League.

Born in New York, she was the daughter of Gregory Meiksins, an interpreter, and of his wife, the former Mischa Berg, a refugee settlement worker.

Rockcliffe Fellows is the disadvantaged Bowery youth who falls into a life of crime until he falls for a beautiful settlement worker (Anna Q. Nilsson).