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 ettlement workers saw
themselves as neighbors. Their ideals were fraternal rather than paternal. The settlements
acted out their image of the ideal neighbor, working to create an integrated community by
acting cooperatively with the people and indigenous organizations and institutions of a
specific location.
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 After residents established their presence in the neighborhood they
set about creating basic services such as kindergartens, playgrounds and nurseries. As
reform issues emerged from their work in the community, settlement workers would then take
on broader issues such as citizenship classes, trade unions and garbage collection. As
historian Walter Trattner observed;
While the charity organization society
agents constantly said 'don't', 'don't' settlement house residents would say -'do', 'do'.
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