Settlement House Movement Revisited

John Gal is a Professor at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Stefan Köngeter is a Professor and Co-Head of the Research Institute for Social Work and Social Spaces at the University of Applied Science, St. Gallen. Sarah Vicary is Associate Head of School in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University.

• Introduction ~ John Gal, Stefan Köngeter and Sarah Vicary PART 1: The transnational transfer of the settlement house ideaA brief transnational history of the Settlement House Movement ~ Stefan KöngeterBerlin’s municipal socialism: A transatlantic muse for Mary Simkhovitch and New York City ~ Barbara Levy Simon The French maisons sociales, Chicago’s Hull-House scheme and their influence in Portugal ~ Francisco Branco Settlement houses and the emergence of social work in Mandatory Palestine ~ John Gal and Yehudit Avnir PART 2: The interface between the Settlement House Movement and other social movementsUniversity Extension and the settlement idea ~ Geoffrey A.C. GinnBetween social mission and social reform: The Settlement House Movement in Germany, 1900-1930 ~ Jens WietschorkeTo be an Englishman and a Jew: Basil Henriques and the Bernhard Baron Oxford and St. George’s Settlement House ~ Hugh ShewellThe English settlements, the Poor Man’s Lawyer and social work, circa 1890-1939 ~ Kate BradleyPART 3: Research in settlement houses and its impactPutting knowledge into action: A social work perspective on settlement house research ~ Dayana LauAnimating objectivity: a Chicago settlement’s use of numeric and aesthetic knowledges to render its immigrant neighbours and neighbourhood knowable ~ Rory CrathPART 4: Final Reflections‘The soul of the community’: two practitioners reflect on history, place and community in two community-based practices from 1980 to 1995: St Hilda’s Community Centre in Bethnal Green and Waterloo Action Centre in Waterloo, South London ~ Jeanette Copperman and Steven MaliesConclusion ~ Sarah Vicary