Settlements, Social Change and Community Action

Ruth Gilchrist is a development worker with Newcastle-upon-Tyne YMCA. She is currently involved in setting up a new settlement with the two universities and the YMCA. She is a member of the editorial board of Youth and Policy. She has been involved in researching rural youth provision and truancy and is employed as a part-time lecturer in community arts at the University of Durham. Tony Jeffs is a senior lecturer at the University of Durham community youth work unit. He previously taught social policy and sociology at the University of Northumbria. He was the founding editor of Youth and Policy and co-edited the Yearbook of Social Work and Social Welfare. He has written extensively on youth work, informal education and social work. He is the author of Young People and the Youth Service.

• Preface, Introduction, Ruth Gilchrist and Tony Jeffs. 1. The Secular Faith of the Social Settlements: `If Christ Came to Chicago', Michael Rose, University of Manchester. 2. American Settlement Houses: The First Half Century, Mina Carson, Oregon State University. 3. Development of the English Settlement Movement, John Matthews and James Kimmis, British Association of Settlements (BASSAC). 4. Strength in Community: Historical Development of Settlements Internationally, Christian Johnson, Former Executive Director of International Federation of Settlements and Neighbourhood Centres (IFS). 5. One Hundred Years of the Birmingham Settlement, Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham. 6. Raising the Past: Toynbee Today, Martin J Walker, Toynbee Hall. 7. Settlements and Adult Education, Mark K. Smith, YMCA George Williams College, London. 8. `Something to Give and Much to Learn': Settlements and Youth Work, Tony Jeffs. 9. Settlements and the Arts Ruth Gilchrist 10. Family Centres: In the Settlement Tradition? Crescy Cannan and Chris Warren-Adamson, Centre for Social Policy and Social Work, University of Sussex 11. Social Entrepreneurs or Sleeping Giants? Settlements in Britain Today, Sarah Banks, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham. References, Index

After reading this fine collection of essays one concludes that within the context of their time, settlement work was on balance progressive, committed and enduring... Between these covers a valuable and still living history has been rescued and effectively passed on to us.