Hull House provided more
than social services for the immigrant and working poor who
populated the neighborhood in which the settlement house was
located. If was a focus for progressive ideas and socialist
politics. As such, it attracted visitors from near and far; the
“movers” and “shakers” of the “Progressive Movement”. And, it was
contacts made at Hull House that brought Alice Hamilton to become
the central figure in the development of occupational epidemiology
and medicine in the United States.
