[PDF] The Progressives And The Slums eBook

Author : Roy Lubove
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1963-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0822975505

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The Progressives and the Slums chronicles the reform of tenement housing, where some of the worst living conditions in the world existed. Roy Lubove focuses his study on New York City, detailing the methods, accomplishments, and limitations of housing reform at the turn of the twentieth century. The book is based in part on personal interviews with, and the unpublished writings of Lawrence Veiller, the dominant figure in housing reform between 1898 and 1920. Lubove views Veiller's role, surveys developments prior to 1890, and views housing reform within the broader context of progressive-era protest and reform.

Author : Roy Lubove
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822971641

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First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book continues to be invaluable to anyone interested in the fate of America's beleaguered metropolitan and industrial centers.

Author : Susan Rimby
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 027105624X

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"Examines the life of Mira Lloyd Dock, a Pennsylvania conservationist and Progressive Era reformer. Explores a broad range of Dock's work, including forestry, municipal improvement, public health, and woman suffrage"--

Author : Allen Freeman Davis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813510736

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Allen Davis looks at the influence of settlement-house workers on the reform movement of the progressive era in Chicago, New York, and Boston. These workers were idealists in the way they approached the future, but they were also realists who knew how to organize and use the American political system to initiate change. They lobbied for a wide range of legislation and conducted statistical surveys that documented the need for reform. After World War I, settlement workers were replaced gradually by social workers who viewed their job as a profession, not a calling, and who did not always share the crusading zeal of their forerunners. Nevertheless, the settlement workers who were active from the 1880s to the 1920s left an important legacy: they steered public opinion and official attitudes toward the recognition that poverty was more likely caused by the social environment than by individual weakness,