Steel and Steelworkers
Subtitle: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh (Suny Series in American Labor History)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780791452264
Subjects: Iron, steel & metals industries; Work & labour; 20th century; Pennsylvania; Iron and steel workers; Sociology; United States - 20th Century; History: American; Ohio; Pittsburgh; Discrimination & Racism; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Social History; History; Labor unions; Working class
Description: "Steel and Steelworkers is an 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.