Author: Paul Underwood KelloggPublisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The Pittsburgh Survey: Women and the trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-1908, by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler. 2. Work-accidents and the law, by Crystal Eastman. 3. The steel workers, by John A. Fitch. 4. Homestead; the households of a mill town, by Margaret F. Byington. 5. The Pittsburgh district civic frontage. 6. Wage earning Pittsburgh
Author: Paul Underwood KelloggPublisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Pittsburgh Surveyed
Author: Maurine Weiner GreenwaldPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book 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.
Women and the Trades
Author: Elizabeth Beardsley ButlerPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822959011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Women and the Trades has long been regarded as a masterwork in the field of social investigation. Originally published in 1909, it was one of six volumes of the path breaking Pittsburgh Survey, the first attempt in the United States to study, systematically and comprehensively, life and labor in one industrial city. No other book documents so precisely the many technological and organizational changes that transformed women's wage work in the early 1900s. Despite Pittsburgh's image as a male-oriented steel town, many women also worked for a living-rolling cigars, canning pickles, or clerking in stores. The combination of manufacturing, distribution, and communication services made the city of national economic developments. What Butler found in her visits to countless workplaces did not flatter the city, its employers, or its wage earners. With few exceptions, labor unions served the interests of skilled males. Women's jobs were rigidly segregated, low paying, usually seasonal, and always insecure. Ethnic distinctions erected powerful barriers between different groups of women, as did status hierarchies based on job function. Professor Maurine Weiner Greenwald's introduction provides biographical sketches of Butler and photographer Lewis Hine and examines the validity of Butler's assumptions and findings, especially with regard to protective legislation, women worker's “passivity,” and working-class family strategies.
Women and the Trades
Author: Elizabeth Beardsley ButlerPublisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Work-accidents and the Law
Author: Crystal EastmanPublisher: New York, Charities Publication Committee
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Category : Employers' liability
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Homestead
Author: Margaret Frances ByingtonPublisher:
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Category : Homestead (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The Steel Workers
Author: John Andrews FitchPublisher:
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Category : Iron and steel workers
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Child Welfare Work in Pennsylvania
Author: William Henry SlingerlandPublisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Pittsburgh Surveyed
Author: Maurine GreenwaldPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822971755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
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.
The Pittsburgh Survey: Women and the trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-1908, by Elizabeth B. Butler. 1909
Author: Paul Underwood KelloggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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