Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-266) and index.
Summary
This book tells the complex story of Pittsburgh citizens' struggle to define and eliminate the problems plaguing their city during the Progressive Era.
Contents
Ch. 1. Pittsburgh Protestant churches and early progressive reform in the steel city -- ch. 2. Pittsburgh's activist laity : agents of the moral reform discourse -- ch. 3. Pittsburgh reformers and the search for moral government -- ch. 4. Graft, vice, and the reform of Pittsburgh's government -- ch. 5. Back to the churches : the Christian social service union and the reclamation of the moral reform discourse.
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