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Article: Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Sciences and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century.
- Article from:
- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Edited by Maurine W. Greenwald and Margo Anderson (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. xi plus 292pp.).
In 1907 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together seventy social reformers and researchers alarmed by the societal effects of urbanization and industrialization. The project, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, resulted in an influential six-volume study intended to alert the general public about the social and environmental ills raging in early twentieth-century industrial America. In thirteen essays drawn from a conference held at the University of Pittsburgh in 1993, Pittsburgh Surveyed analyzes the original Pittsburgh Survey and puts it into ...