Drawing on reports from the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago — investigations of dance halls, theatres, lake excursion boats and the records of thousands of cases — Addams examines how young working girls were drawn into prostitution. She argues by analogy with the abolition of slavery, reviews new laws, and presses for better wages and conditions as the real remedy.
A Progressive Era landmark of social reform from the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, first serialised in McClure’s. Download the free EPUB.