Jane Addams on Inequality and Political Friendship; First Edition

In this book, Wynne Walker Moskop addresses the practical and theoretical problem of how unequal political friendships evolve toward arrangements the parties consider reciprocal and just, a problem neglected by scholars of democracy who associate reciprocity and justice only with equal parties. Jane Addams insisted that Hull House was not a charity with philanthropic aspirations; rather it had to bring "two classes" to a shared purpose and more egalitarian relation. The problem was, and still is, how? Drawing on several bodies of scholarship—including Addams's writings, secondary works about her collaborations, literature on Aristotelian political friendship, and feminist scholarship on the global migration of care workers—Moskop shows the importance of Addams's practices to the continuing relevance of unequal economic relations for shaping political friendship. Contributing to a lively conversation about Addams's work as a pragmatist thinker and social reformer that began three decades ago, Jane Addams on Inequality and Political Friendship is an invaluable resource to students of democratic theory, feminist political theory and philosophy, and American pragmatism. It illuminates the importance of overlooked conditions for friendship and justice in unequal relations, given people's ongoing subordination because of race, class, gender, and citizenship status in the U.S. and transnationally. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgements 12 1. Introduction: Political Friendship and Justice among Unequals 14 Addams’s Expansion of Political Friendship 17 Purpose and Approach 22 Organization and Contents 23 Notes 28 References 29 2. Addams’s Friendship Practices 32 Notes 48 References 49 3. Economic Foundations of Pragmatist Political Friendships 50 Class Relations and Social Ethics 53 Charitable Relations between Philanthropist and Beneficiary 57 Filial Relations 62 Household Labor 66 Industrial Amelioration 68 Educational Methods 71 Political Reforms 75 Notes 82 References 83 4. Economic Foundations of War and Peace 85 Class Hierarchies and Possibilities for Cross-Class Friendships in Democracy and Social Ethics 90 Class Hierarchy in Newer Ideals of Peace 92 Tribal Patriotism and Survivals of Militarism 96 Conclusion: From Tribal Patriotism to Cosmic Patriotism 106 Notes 110 References 111 5. Possibilities for Transnational Political Friendship 112 Transnational and Subnational Economic Hierarchies 119 Women’s Peace Activities and de Facto Transnational Organization 124 Conclusion: The Place of Stories in de Facto Organizational Processes 134 Notes 139 References 139 6. Conclusion: A Feminist Pragmatist Approach to Political Friendship 141 Addams and the Tradition of Aristotelian Political Friendship 142 Possibilities for Transnational Friendships: The Transnational Migration of Care Workers 148 Notes 153 References 154 Index 158 Contributing to a lively conversation about Jane Addams's work as a social reformer that began two decades ago, Moskop shows the importance of Adams's practices to the continuing relevance of unequal economic relations for shaping possibilities for political friendship.