
Steel and Steelworkers
Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh
- 348 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Breaks new ground in the study of an industry and region crucial to the history of American industrial capitalism.
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.
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Table of contents
- STEEL AND STEELWORKERS
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Historiography
- 1. The Secret of Industrialization in Pittsburgh
- 2. From Great Depression to Great Fear: The “Warfare State” in Steel
- 3. Cold War Pittsburgh: 1949–1959
- 4. The Road to Deindustrialization: Pittsburgh and the Steel Industry 1960–1977
- 5. The Lean Years: 1978–2000
- Notes
- Index
- Name Index