ABSTRACT
Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an industrial city in a crucial era of change.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |26 pages
Introduction
chapter |31 pages
Pittsburgh Reformers and the Search for Moral Government
chapter |36 pages
Graft, Vice, and the Reform of Pittsburgh's Government
chapter |43 pages
Back to the Churches
The Christian Social Service Union and the Reclamation of the Moral Reform Discourse
