Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Pittsburgh Surveyed

Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century

Edited By Maurine Greenwald, Margo Anderson

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 Steel Workers

By John Fitch

This classic account of the worker in the steel industry during the early years of the twentieth century combines the social investigator’s mastery of facts with the vivid personal touch of the journalist. From its pages emerges a finely etched picture of how men lived and worked in steel. ...

Who Says?

Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community

Edited By William DeGenaro

In Who Says?, scholars of rhetoric, composition, and communications seek to revise the elitist “rhetorical tradition” by analyzing diverse topics such as settlement house movements and hip-hop culture to uncover how communities use discourse to construct working-class identity. The contributors examine the language of workers at ...

Enduring Reform

Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America's Democracies

Edited By Jeffrey W. Rubin, Vivienne Bennett

Over the last twenty years, business responses to progressive reform in Latin America have shifted dramatically. Until the 1990s, progressive movements in Latin America suffered violent repression sanctioned by the private sector and other socio-political elites. The powerful case studies in this volume show how business responses to reform have ...