Early 20th-Century Muckraker, Journalist, Scholar, and Sociologist of Industry

: A writer and the first Secretary of the Working Women's Society of New York. In this excerpt from an article published in Forum, Van Etten defends the character of the Russian Jewish immigrants that were then arriving in New York in great numbers. Jewish working men, she maintains, are educated, temperate, and endowed with the ability to rise above adverse conditions. Futhermore, she argues, the arrival of large numbers of Jewish immigrants, far from increasing competition for jobs in certain trades... (From: SHEC.ASHP.CUNY.edu.)