A town without steel : envisioning Homestead /

In 1986, the USX Homestead Works closed, with the loss of thousands of jobs. This book looks at the people of Homestead and how they dealt with the trauma that affected them, detailing the modifications of domestic strategies in a public crisis.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schachter, Judith, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1998]
Colección:University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Temas:
1900-1999
Plant shutdowns > Pennsylvania > Homestead > History > 20th century.
Steel industry and trade > Pennsylvania > Homestead > History > 20th century.
Iron and steel workers > Pennsylvania > Homestead > History > 20th century.
Usines > Fermeture > Pennsylvanie > Homestead > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Travailleurs du fer et de l'acier > Pennsylvanie > Homestead > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > General.
Iron and steel workers
Plant shutdowns
Social conditions
Steel industry and trade
Homestead (Pa.) > History.
Homestead (Pa.) > Social conditions.
Pennsylvania > Homestead
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Envisioning Homestead : the place
  • Setting the stage : three generations in a mill town
  • The curtain comes down : living without a mill in a mill town
  • Women's activities and men's work : the division of labor in a steel town
  • Raising a new generation in an ex-steel town
  • Harmony and discord : interpretations of ethnicity and religion in a steel town
  • Steel and segregation : race relations in Homestead
  • Outside the mill : recreation and residence in Homestead
  • Responses in the Valley : the aftermath of the closing
  • Beyond the closing : changes in Homestead.

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