1910's Lifestyles and Social Trends | Kellogg, Paul 1879-1958

EDITOR, REFORMER

Survey.

"The Surveys work is," Paul Kellogg wrote in 1915, "as an investigator and interpreter of the objective conditions of life and labor and as a chronicler of undertakings to improve them. The points of view of those who contribute is almost as diverse as their places of residence." Kellogg was more than editor in chief of this prominent journal of social work, reform, progressive politics, and opinion. The Survey was inextricably tied to his name, from his early work as a contributor, to his becoming editor in chief in 1912, to the journal's demise from lack of funding in 1952. In the 1910s Kellogg and the writers for the Survey were at the forefront of progressive reform, leaders in taking social work—which had previously focused on amelioration of existing conditions—to the level of constructive planning for policies to prevent the creation of the difficult conditions...