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What challenges did secretaries of the East St. Louis National Catholic Community House face in their social work with immigrants, 1918-1922?, documents selected and interpreted by Jeanne Petit

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What challenges did secretaries of the East St. Louis National Catholic Community House face in their social work with immigrants, 1918-1922?, documents selected and interpreted by Jeanne Petit

Language

eng

Main title

What challenges did secretaries of the East St. Louis National Catholic Community House face in their social work with immigrants, 1918-1922?

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dictionaries

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911735883

Responsibility statement

documents selected and interpreted by Jeanne Petit

Series statement

Women and social movements: scholar's edition

Summary

Like all early twentieth-century women social workers, the women who ran the National Catholic Community Houses contended with poverty, poor sanitation, and shoestring budgets. Further, as Catholics in a Protestant-dominated country and women in a patriarchal Church, they had to negotiate a complex political and social landscape while doing their work. In the process, they opened up new dimensions of urban social welfare as they sought to prove that they should be taken seriously as American reformers and good Catholic women

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