Open AccessTo Mentor and Control: How the North Bennet Street Industrial School Became a Pioneer of Philanthropy and Americanization at the Turn of the Century
Author(s) -
Rosanna Wright
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the graduate history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1925-2455
DOI - 10.18357/ghr101202119999
Subject(s) - progressivism , americanization , immigration , control (management) , political science , post industrial society , sociology , economic history , management , history , law , politics , economics
This study explores how Progressivism, and a belief in the benefits of ‘Americanizing’ immigrants, affected educational institutions such as Boston’s North Bennet Industrial School at the end of the nineteenth century.