About Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
Lived 1884 – 1911 (aged 26–27). Elizabeth Beardsley Butler was an American writer and economist.
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. 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.
Her final book, Saleswomen in Mercantile Stores: Baltimore, 1909, was posthumously published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912.
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American social investigator (1884-1911)
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