Pittsburgh Surveyed
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Pittsburgh Surveyed

Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century

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eBook - PDF

Pittsburgh Surveyed

Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century

About this book

At the beginning of the century, Pittsburgh was the center of one of the nation's most powerful industries: iron and steel. It was also the site of an unprecedented effort to study the effects of industry on one American city. The Pittsburgh Survey (1909-1914) brought together statisticians, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, labor investigators, city planners, and photographers. They documented Pittsburgh's degraded environment, corrupt civic institutions, and exploited labor force and made a compelling case - in four books and two collections of articles - for reforming corporate capitolism.In its literary history and visual power, breadth, and depth, the Pittsburgh Survey remains an undisputed classis of social science research. Like the Lynds' Middletown studies of the 1920s, the Survey captured the nation's attention, and Pittsburgh came to symbolize the problems and way of life of industrial America as a whole.A landmark volume in its own right, this book of thirteen essays examines the accuracy and impact of the Pittsburgh Survey, both on social science as a discipline and on Pittsburgh itself. It also places the Survey firmly in the context of the social reform movement of the early twentieth century.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Introduction: The Pittsburgh Survey in Historical Perspective | Margo Anderson & Maurine W. Greenwald
  4. 2. The Social Survey Movement and Early Twentieth-Century Sociological Methodology | Martin Bulmer
  5. 3. The Pittsburgh Survey and the Survey Movement: An Episode in the History of Expertise | Stephen Turner
  6. 4. The Failure of Fair Wages and the Death of Labor Republicanism: The Ideological Legacy of the Pittsburgh Survey | Steven R. Cohen
  7. 5. The Pittsburgh Survey and "Greater Pittsburgh": A Muddled Metropolitan Geography | Edward K. Muller
  8. 6. Seeking the Meaning of Life: The Pittsburgh Survey and the Family | S. J. Kleinberg
  9. 7. Does the Evidence Support the Argument?: Margaret Byington's Cost of Living Survey of Homestead | Margo Anderson
  10. 8. Visualizing Pittsburgh in the 1900s: Art and Photography in the Service of Social Reform | Maurine W. Greenwald
  11. 9. Civic Leaders and Environmental Reform: The Pittsburgh Survey and Urban Planning | John F. Bauman & Margaret Spratt
  12. 10. The Pittsburgh Survey as an Environmental Statement | Joel A. Tarr
  13. 11. The Spirit of '92: Popular Opposition in Homestead's Politics and Culture, 1892-1937 | Richard Oestreicher
  14. 12. Optimism, Dilemmas, and Progress: The Pittsburgh Survey and Black Americans | Laurence A. Glasco
  15. 13. The Immigrants Pictured and Unpictured in the Pittsburgh Survey | Ewa Morawska
  16. Notes
  17. Contributors
  18. Index