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Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People - 1 online resource : multiple file formats

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pittsburgh_Survey Release date is 2014-06-19

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"Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People by Various" is a sociological study published between 1909 and 1914. This groundbreaking work emerged from the Progressive Era's pioneering examination of industrial Pittsburgh, where seventy investigators documented urban conditions faced by immigrant workers and families. Using scientific methods combined with reformist purpose, the survey exposed the harsh realities of working-class life in America's prototypical industrial city, capturing the environmental and social costs of unchecked corporate industrialism through systematic research and vivid documentation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social conditions Social surveys -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh Working class -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh Civic improvement -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh

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