The Steel Workers , Fitch's best known book

John Andrews Fitch (1881–1959) was an American writer, teacher, and pioneering social investigator of the Progressive Era. Year 1881 ( MDCCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Progressive Era in the United States was a period of reform which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s He is best known for his contributions to The Pittsburgh Survey, a landmark study of social conditions in a U. The Pittsburgh Survey (1907-1908 was a pioneering Sociological study of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA funded by the Russell S. city.

Born in South Dakota, he was a 1904 graduate of Yankton College. South Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on Yankton College was a small Liberal arts college in Yankton, South Dakota, affiliated with the Congregational Christian Churches (later He taught at Nebraska's Weeping Water Academy before enrolling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for graduate studies in political economy. Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Political economy originally was the term for studying production buying and selling and their relations with law custom and government

In the fall of 1907 he joined with his professor, John R. Commons, on a trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to begin work with dozens of other progressives on an ambitious sociological study: Paul Kellogg's Pittsburgh Survey, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year John Rogers Commons (1862–1945 was a well-known institutional economist and labor historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul Kellogg may refer to Paul Kellogg (American journalist Paul Kellogg (Canadian political writer The Russell Sage Foundation is a small foundation located in New York City that is devoted exclusively to research in the Social sciences. Fitch spent more than a year interviewing steel workers. The resulting book, The Steel Workers, was published in 1910, one of the Survey's six published volumes. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting It remains a classic depiction of a key industry in early twentieth-century America.

Fitch, after a brief stint working for the New York Department of Labor, was an editor and writer for Paul Kellogg's Survey, America's leading social work journal. Beginning in 1917 Fitch taught labor relations as a professor at the New York School of Social Work, where he retired in 1946. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

References

• Fitch, John A. [1910] (1989). The Steel Workers. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American University press that is part of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh ISBN 0-8229-6091-5.  
• Greenwald, Maurine W. and Margo Anderson (1996). Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American University press that is part of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh ISBN 0-8229-5610-1.