Kevin Mattson, Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy during the Progressive Era (University Park, PA, 1997).
2.
Robert Johnston, "Redemocratizing the Progressive Era: The Politics of Progressive-Era Political History," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1, no. 1 (January 2002): 68-92. Examples of work emphasizing the democratic dimensions of Progressivism include Mattson, Creating a Democratic Public; James Kloppenberg, Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 (New York, 1986); Robert Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy (Ithaca, NY, 1991); and Leon Fink, Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment (Cambridge, MA, 1997). For skepticism about the connections between Progressivism and democracy, see Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (New York, 2003); and Shelton Stromquist, Reinventing the People: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism (Urbana, IL, 2006).
3.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life (New York, 2002); Rivka Shpak Lissak, Pluralism and Progressives: Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890-1919 (Chicago, 1989); and Thomas Lee Philpott, The Slum and the Ghetto: Immigrants, Blacks, and Reformers in Chicago, 1880-1930 (Oxford, 1978), especially 62-88.
4.
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes ( New York, 1910).
5.
Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics (New York, 1905).
6.
Ruth Hutchinson Crocker, Social Work and Social Order: The Settlement Movement in Two Industrial Cities, 1889-1930 (Urbana, IL, 1992).
