Maurine Greenwald & Margo Anderson 
Pittsburgh Surveyed [PDF ebook] 
Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century

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At the beginning of the century, Pittsburgh was the center of one of the nation's most powerful industries: iron and steel. It was also the site of an unprecedented effort to study the effects of industry on one American city. The Pittsburgh Survey (1909-1914) brought together statisticians, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, labor investigators, city planners, and photographers. They documented Pittsburgh's degraded environment, corrupt civic institutions, and exploited labor force and made a compelling case – in four books and two collections of articles – for reforming corporate capitolism.In its literary history and visual power, breadth, and depth, the Pittsburgh Survey remains an undisputed classis of social science research. Like the Lynds' Middletown studies of the 1920s, the Survey captured the nation's attention, and Pittsburgh came to symbolize the problems and way of life of industrial America as a whole.A landmark volume in its own right, this book of thirteen essays examines the accuracy and impact of the Pittsburgh Survey, both on social science as a discipline and on Pittsburgh itself. It also places the Survey firmly in the context of the social reform movement of the early twentieth century.

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<b>Maurine W. Greenwald</b> is associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author of <i>Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States</i>.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 337 ● ISBN 9780822971757 ● File size 8.4 MB ● Editor Maurine Greenwald & Margo Anderson ● Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press ● City PIttsburgh ● Country US ● Published 1996 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9438638 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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