This book looks at the progressive movement through the careers of four women, the first American women to be trained as social scientists in the research universities of late nineteenth-century America. The book looks at the impact of late nineteenth-century social science on reform and finds that the research universities were important intellectual determinants of the welfare state.
This important new book focuses on the lives and careers of four American women--Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor--who played decisive roles in early-twentieth-century reform crusades.
