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Road to Rust
The Disintegration of the Steel Industry in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
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Road to Rust
The Disintegration of the Steel Industry in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
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Steel tells the story of strikes and violent unrest amid the mines and mills of twentieth-century Pennsylvania and Ohioāincludes photos.
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As the twentieth century dawned on western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the region's steel industry faced a struggle for unionism. The industry was plagued by disasters that killed and maimed countless workers, many of them impoverished immigrants from Ireland, Hungary, and other nationsāin 1906 alone, more than four hundred workers died in steel plant accidents.
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In response, unionists like Philip Murray, John L. Lewis, Samuel Gompers, and Gus Hall began to battle for fair wages, hours, and working conditions. Managers like Judge Elbert Gary and Tom Girdler opposed their every move. Tensions from issues of immigration, class, skill, and race erupted throughout the industry.
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The tribulations led to widespread steel strikes directed by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, and a war that killed scores and injured thousands. In this book, industrial relations expert Dale Richard Perelman charts the struggle and decline of the nation's most prominent regional steel industry.
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As the twentieth century dawned on western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the region's steel industry faced a struggle for unionism. The industry was plagued by disasters that killed and maimed countless workers, many of them impoverished immigrants from Ireland, Hungary, and other nationsāin 1906 alone, more than four hundred workers died in steel plant accidents.
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In response, unionists like Philip Murray, John L. Lewis, Samuel Gompers, and Gus Hall began to battle for fair wages, hours, and working conditions. Managers like Judge Elbert Gary and Tom Girdler opposed their every move. Tensions from issues of immigration, class, skill, and race erupted throughout the industry.
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The tribulations led to widespread steel strikes directed by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, and a war that killed scores and injured thousands. In this book, industrial relations expert Dale Richard Perelman charts the struggle and decline of the nation's most prominent regional steel industry.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Making Steel
- Chapter 2 The Human Costs of Making Steel
- Chapter 3 The Corporation
- Chapter 4 The First Sortie: The Strike of 1901
- Chapter 5 The Aftermath of the Strike of 1901
- Chapter 6 Jones & Laughlin
- Chapter 7 Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909
- Chapter 8 Organization Efforts Continue
- Chapter 9 Living Conditions
- Chapter 10 East Youngstown Strike of 1916
- Chapter 11 World War I
- Chapter 12 Strike of 1919
- Chapter 13 āTimes They Are A-Changingā
- Chapter 14 The Depression
- Chapter 15 Labor Remobilizes
- Chapter 16 The SWOC
- Chapter 17 The Document
- Chapter 18 Little Steel Battles On
- Chapter 19 Rust: The Rest of the Story
- Afterword
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- About the Author