Settlement movement
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title:
Settlement movement
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The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social connection. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-in
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Reformist social movement that began in the 1880s in England and the US
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_movement
date created:
2005-05-27T12:20:41Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T06:36:54Z
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