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The battle for Homestead, 1880-1892 : politics, culture, and steel /
"Pittsburgh series in social and labor history." History of the Homestead Steel Works.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
©1992.
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| Colección: | Pittsburgh series in social and labor history.
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. The Battle for Homestead. 1. Homestead and the American Republic in the Gilded Age. 2. 6 July 1892: "A Carnival of Revenge"
- pt. 2. Captains of Steel, Captains of Culture. 3. The "Mechanical Habit of Mind" Problems in Iron Production in the Mid 1800s. The Bessemer Process. 4. Captains of Steel. Abram S. Hewitt and the Promise of the Open Hearth. Alexander Holley, Bessemer Engineering, and the Origins of Scientific Management
- pt. 3. Labor Reform in Pittsburgh, 1867-1881: From "Amalgamation" to the Brink of Collapse. 5. Indicting and Embracing the Civilization of the Nineteenth Century. 6. Roots of Labor Reform and Machine Politics. 7. Custom Confronts Capital: The Lockout of 1874-1875. 8. Toward a Wider Amalgamation: The Knights of Labor. 9. Mill Owners and Machine Politicians on the Offensive. 10. Miners Amalgamate in "Late Afternoon"
- pt. 4. "Tried and Found Faithful": Homestead Defies the Assault. 11. Assaults on Labor. The Homestead Glassworks and the Knights of Labor. The Decision to Build a Steel Mill. William Clark and the First Homestead Steelworkers. 12. The Homestead Strike of 1882. 13. "Defense, Not Defiance": Defeat in the City and the State
- pt. 5. Labor in Greater Pittsburgh During the 1880s. 14. A Tale of Two Cities: Pittsburgh and Homestead. 15. Republican Recruits: East Europeans in Homestead. 16. Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron and Philanthropist. 17. The Homestead Lockout of 1889: The Making of a "Workers' Republic" 18. The Life and Times of "Beeswax" Taylor: Exemplary Paradoxes of American Labor
- pt. 6. 1892 and Beyond: Legacies of Homestead. 19. Captains of Business, Captains of Politics. 20. 1892: The Stakes for Labor. 21. Silenced Minorities. 22. Winners and Losers.