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The article presents information on social problems and reforms. It discusses the book "Homestead: the Households of a Mill Town," by Margaret F. Byington. As one of the Pittsburgh Survey series, this volume needs no extended introduction. It is an attempt to appraise the wages received by men in the Pittsburgh steel district to learn what the wages can buy and what they actually do buy. The budgetary study involved in this undertaking was carried on not in Pittsburgh, with its complex industrial and social conditions, but in Homestead, where the settings are comparatively simple. The book falls logically into two parts-one a study of Homestead as a town, socially, politically and economically, with description of its relations to the mill that dominates the place; the other a budgetary study of ninety Homestead families, of from four to eight weeks. It is in the first of these that the chief interest and value of the work lie. As a picture of conditions in a small industrial center, it offers valuable material for the civic student and worker. |
