TY - BOOK AU - Various TI - Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part II. The Place and Its Social Forces AV - HN PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social conditions KW - Social surveys -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh KW - Working class -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh KW - Civic improvement -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pittsburgh_Survey; Release date is 2014-06-18; Produced by Richard Tonsing, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part II. The Place and Its…" is a pioneering sociological study published between 1909 and 1914. Conducted by seventy investigators during 1907-1908, this landmark Progressive Era project examined industrial Pittsburgh when it served as America's prototypical factory city. The research documented working conditions, immigrant life, corporate power, and environmental problems affecting the smoky, hardscrabble city. Director Paul Kellogg aimed to combine scientific inquiry with reform, hoping to influence policy throughout industrial America through systematic exposure of urban social ills. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46025 ER -