Pittsburgh surveyed : social science and social reform in the early twentieth century
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Pittsburgh surveyed : social science and social reform in the early twentieth century
University of Pittsburgh Press, c1996
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-284) and index
Contents of Works
- The Pittsburgh survey in historical perspective / Margo Anderson and Maurine W. Greenwald
- The social survey movement and early twentieth-century sociological methodology / Martin Bulmer
- The Pittsburgh survey and the survey movement : an episode in the history of expertise / Stephen Turner
- The failure of fair wages and the death of labor republicanism : the ideological legacy of the Pittsburgh survey / Steven R. Cohen
- The Pittsburgh survey and "greater Pittsburgh" : a muddled metropolitan geography / Edward K. Muller
- Seeking the meaning of life : the Pittsburgh survey and the family / S.J. Kleinberg
- Does the evidence support the argument? : Margaret Byington's cost of living survey of homestead / Margo Anderson
- Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900s : art and photography in the service of social reform / Maurine W. Greenwald
- Civic leaders and environmental reform : the Pittsburgh survey and urban planning / John F. Bauman and Margaret Spratt
- The Pittsburgh survey as an environmental statement / Joel A. Tarr
- The spirit of '92 : popular opposition in Homestead's politics and culture, 1892-1937 / Richard Oestreicher
- Optimism, dilemmas, and progress : the Pittsburgh survey and Black Americans / Laurence A. Glasco
- The immigrants pictured and unpictured in the Pittsburgh survey / Ewa Morawska
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780822939566
Description
The Pittsburgh Survey of 1909 to 1914 was a study to show the effects of heavy industry on one American city. This text of 13 essays examines the accuracy and impact of the Pittsburgh Survey, both on social science as a discipline and on Pittsburgh itself.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780822956105
Description
From 1909-1914 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Surveyed examines the accuracy and the impact of the influential Pittsburgh Survey, emphasizing its role in the social reform movement of the early twentieth century.
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