Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
Elizabeth Beardsley Butler | |
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| Born | December 1, 1884 New York City |
| Died | 1911 |
| Occupation | researcher |
| Nationality | American |
Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1884–1911) was a pioneering social investigator of the Progressive Era. She is best known for her contributions to The Pittsburgh Survey, a landmark study of social conditions in an American city.
Life
She was born in New York on 1 December 1884.[1]
A 1905 graduate of
Paul Kellogg's Pittsburgh Survey, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. Her resulting book, Women and the Trades, was published in 1909.[2]
It was the first large survey of wage-earning women in America and the first of the six volumes of the Survey.
Butler died of tuberculosis at age 26 in Saranac Lake, New York.[1]
Her final book, Saleswomen in Mercantile Stores: Baltimore, 1909, was posthumously published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912.
References
- ^ a b "Elizabeth Beardsley Butler". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
- OCLC 10605516.
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