Eastman, Crystal. Work-Accidents and the Law . New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1910.
Eastman, Crystal. "Employers’ Liability," a criticism based on facts.. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan , 1909.
Before Eastman's study, common perception was that workers' accidents were mostly the fault of their own negligence. Eastman clearly disproved this notion. This booklet gives insight into her arguments.
Weisen, Blanche, ed.. Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution
. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Crystal Eastman was a lawyer, antimilitarist, feminist, socialist, and journalist. Read some of her thoughts on women and revolution in her book of the same name.
Witt, John Fabian. ""Crystal Eastman and the Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties,"" in Duke Law Journal., 705-763.December 2004.
This PDF article, written for a law journal, shows the way in which an international political and legal movement found roots in America as the beginning of American Civil Liberties.. It cites Crystal Eastman as a prime example of this connection.
A part of the educational resources at the Johnstown Heritage Discovery Center, this photo gallery of working conditions in coal mines and steel mills over the years is an excellent primary resource.
Pittsburgh Portraits by Joseph Stella: The Pittsburgh Survey http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/stell30.html
This article entitled, "What Was the Pittsburgh Survey?" by Paul U. Kellogg was originally published in Charities and the Commons, January 2, 1909. It is now located on the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh web site and provides a good background and definition of the Pittsburgh Survey, describing it as "a rapid, close range investigation of living conditions in the Pennsylvania steel district."
Social Welfare and Visual Politics: The Story of Survey Graphic. New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/sg/essay02.htm
In this essay by Cara Finnegan, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Finnegan discusses Paul Kellogg and his work on the social work magazines The Survey and The Survey Graphic. The discussion includes information about how his work with the Pittsburgh Survey influenced the magazine to change its name from Charities and the Commons to The Survey.
The Pittsburgh Survey by Lewis Hine
http://web.mac.com/kswillmann/Kate_Sampsell-Willmann/HIstorical_Photog...
Dr. Kate Sampsell Willmann posted slides from a magic lantern show given by Lewis Hine on her blog.
The Pittsburgh survey: findings in six volumes: Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958: Free Download & Streaming: Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/pittsburghsurvey03kelluoft
Online text of The Pittsburgh Survey found on the University of Toronto's digital library.
Social Museums
U.S. Department of Labor-History-The Job Safety Law of 1970: Its Passage Was Perilous
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/osha.htm
Review of the creation of OSHA that offers a historical perspective on the Progressive Era.
United States Department of Labor-History-5. Progressive Era Investigations http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/mono-regsafepart05.htm
History of Progressive Era investigations into working conditions. Specific note is given to Crystal Eastman and how she changed the perception that most workers' accidents were their fault (due to carelessness, for instance).
eHistory at OSU-Multimedia Histories-Excerpts from the Pittsburgh Survey
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/pittsburghsurvey/
A summary and excerpts from the Pittsburgh Survey.
