| Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh Contributor(s): Hinshaw, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791452255 ISBN-13: 9780791452257 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 305.967 |
| LCCN: 2001034868 |
| Series: Suny American Labor History |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.32 lbs) 348 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Locality - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Steel and Steelworkers is a fascinating account of the forces that shaped Pittsburgh, big business, and labor through the city's rapid industrialization in the mid-nineteenth century, its lengthy era of industrial "maturity," its precipitous deindustrialization toward the end of the twentieth century, and its reinvention from "hell with the lid off" to America's most livable (post-industrial) city. Hinshaw examined a wide variety of company, union, and government documents, oral histories, and newspapers to reconstruct the steel industry and the efforts of labor, business, and government to refashion it. A compelling report of industrialization and deindustrialization, in which questions of organization, power, and politics prove as important as economics, Steel and Steelworkers shows the ways in which big business and labor helped determine the fate of steel and Pittsburgh. |