Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People by Various
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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.)
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| Author | Various |
|---|---|
| Title | Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pittsburgh_Survey |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Tonsing, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | HN: Social sciences: Social history and conditions, Social problems |
| Subject | Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social conditions |
| Subject | Social surveys -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh |
| Subject | Working class -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh |
| Subject | Civic improvement -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 46029 |
| Release Date | Jun 19, 2014 |
| Last Update | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 495 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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