TY - BOOK AU - Various TI - Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People 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 2014-06-19; 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 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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46029 ER -