Homestead steel mill
Subtitle: the final ten years : USWA local 1397 and the fight for union democracy
By: Mike Stout ; introduction by JoAnn Wypijewski ; afterword by Staughton Lynd
Contributors: Lynd, Staughton, writer of afterword; Wypijewski, JoAnn, writer of introduction
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781629638058; 9781629637914
Subjects: Steel industry and trade; Iron and steel workers; United Steelworkers of America. Local 1397 (Homestead, Pa.); Labor unions; United Steelworkers of America; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Title page; title: Copyright; title: Contents; title: Introduction; title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Chapter 1: A Strange Beauty; title: Chapter 2: Moving to Homstead-Becoming a Steelworker; title: Chapter 3: Homestead-Forge of the Universe, Heart of Industrial Unionism; title: Chapter 4: U.S. Steel and the Rebirth of Industrial Unionism; title: Chapter 5: Origins of the Local 1397 Rank and File Caucus-Union Democracy Comes Alive; title: Chapter 6: Local Union Democracy at Homestead; title: Chapter 7: Birth of the 1397 Rank and File Newspaper; title: Chapter 8: 1978-1979, End of the Heyday; title: Chapter 9: 1397 Rank and File Caucus Takes over the Local; title: Chapter 10: Learning the Ropes and How to Handle Power; title: Chapter 11: Local Union 1397-International Divide; title: Chapter 12: Conneaut, Youngstown, and the Beginning of the End; title: Chapter 13: My Last Hurrah inside the Mill; title: Chapter 14: Local 1397 Activity Grows; title: Chapter 15: Rank-And-File Attempts to Go District-Wide; title: Chapter 16: Unemployed and Living on the Edge; title: Chapter 17: The Beginning of the End for Steelmaking at Homestead; title: Chapter 18: Unemployed Organizing, Food Banks, and Rock Concerts; title: Chapter 19: Union Elections-the Intraunion Battles Intensify; title: Chapter 20: Envy and Jealousy-Wreckers and Splitters; title: Chapter 21: Coalition with the Denominational Mission Strategy; title: Chapter 22: Job Eliminations and Grievance Battles Escalate; title: Chapter 23: Union-Company Relations Take a Turn for the Worse; title: Chapter 24: Weisen's 1983 Presidential Bid and the Decline of the Rank-And-File Movement; title: Chapter 25: The Channel 13 PBS Affair; title: Chapter 26: Art Meets Labor-Springsteen Comes to Town; title: Chapter 27: The Dorothy Six Campaign; title: Chapter 28: The 1985 Local Union Elections: How Did Weisen Win Again?; title: Chapter 29: Fighting to the End; title: Chapter 30: Ron Weisen-Heart of the Rank and File; title: Chapter 31: The Last Attempted Bribe; title: Chapter 32: The 1986 Lockout; title: Chapter 33: The Mill Is Gone, but the Grievance Fights Continue; title: Chapter 34: The Valley Machine Shop Lawsuit; title: Chapter 35: Saving the History of Local 1397; title: Chapter 36: Running for State Representative-a Political Nightmare; title: Chapter 37: The War Is Over, One Last Fight; title: Chapter 38: Conclusion; title: Afterword; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index