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.
