This quote is from a progressive reformer in the late 1800s: "we were ready to perform the humblest neighborhood services. we were asked to wash the new-born babies, and to prepare the dead for burial, to nurse the sick, and to ’mind the children." with which movement was the author of this quote aligned?

The settlement house movement

Explanation:

The settlement house movement was a social movement held in New York City where some people with a good standard of living moved to the city's poor neighborhoods to help those in need. People who participated in this movement helped to care for the sick, the children, and the elderly, helped to prepare funerals and provided voluntary services in a number of different ways.

the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.