The Settlement as a Social Laboratory

Publication Date: December 1915

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Walter Leo Solomon

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Communal Organization; Social Services; Education

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author describes how the twenty-six year old settlement movement has served as an incubator as well as a source of innovation in social programs and progressive legislation and lobbying efforts. For example, the playground movement and the boy's club both grew out of settlement organizations' efforts to improve the situation of their largely impoverished immigrant clientele.

Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 6:5