hull house would be credited with an impressive list of first accomplishments, form establishing the first public playgrounds, public kitchens, and citizenship preparation and special education classe in chicago to helping bring about the first juvenile courts and public employment bureaus. addams herself would be a national figure who helped shape the american social work movement. she would be awarded the nobel peace prize in 1931. out of all her work about political and social reform-for she saw them as inexorably intertwined - a 1904 address is included that was published in the american journal of sociology in 1905,"problems of municipal administration." unlike woodrow wilson's plea for searching for new ways to run government because of the complexities of the time, addams was highly critical of the founders, those men of the eighteenth century who had no real idea of "the difficulties and blunders which a self-governing people was sure to encounter." in her address she lays out a different vision of self-governance and what the roles of government, its administrations, and its citizens should be.