Homestead : The Households of a Mill Town (2nd Edition) /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Byington, Margaret F. (Margaret Frances), 1877-1952 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Waseleski, Tom (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Homestead Steel Works.
Homestead Steel Works > History.
Steel-works.
Social conditions.
Households.
Acieries > Pennsylvanie > Homestead > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Menages (Statistique) > Pennsylvanie > Homestead > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Steel-works > Pennsylvania > Homestead > History > 20th century.
Households > Pennsylvania > Homestead > History > 20th century.
Pennsylvania > Homestead.
Homestead (Pa.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Homestead (Pa.) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Forword by Tom Waseleski
  • Homestead Revisited
  • Editor's Foreword
  • Part I. The Mill and the Town
  • Chapter I. Homestead and the Great Strike
  • Chapter II. The Make-up of the Town
  • Part II. The English-Speaking Households
  • Chapter III. Work, Wages, and the Cost of Living
  • Chapter IV. Rent in the Household Budget
  • Chapter V. Table and Dinner Pail
  • Chapter VI. Other Expenditures: The Budget as a Whole
  • Chapter VII. Of Human Relationships
  • Chapter VIII. The Children of Homestead
  • Part III. The Slav as a Homesteader
  • Chapter IX. The Slavs
  • Chapter X. Life at 1.65 a Day
  • Chapter XI. Family Life of the Slavs
  • Chapter XII. The Slav Organized
  • Part IV. The Mill and the Household
  • Chapter XIII. The Mill and the Household
  • Appendices
  • I. Methods of Budget Study
  • II. Tables giving general description and average weekly expenditure of each of the 90 budget families
  • III. Employees in Homestead Plant of the United States Steel Corporation classified according to skill, citizenship, conjugal condition, etc., Mar. 1, 1907
  • IV. Classification and Earnings of Employees in Three Representative Steel Plants in the Pittsburgh District
  • V. An Act to Enable Borough Councils to Establish Boards of Health. State of Pennsylvania. 1893
  • VI. Report of the Board of Health of the Borough of Homestead for the year ending December 31, 1908
  • VII. Record of Casualties on Unprotected Grade Crossings, Homestead, 1905-1907
  • VIII. Seven-Day Labor
  • IX. Cost of Living in Pittsburgh
  • X. Ratings on Men Employed in Iron and Steel Industry, Prudential Insurance Company of America
  • XI. Carnegie Relief Fund
  • XII. Accident Relief Plan of the United States Steel Corporation
  • XIII. The Carnegie Library, Homestead
  • XIV. Slavic Organizations in Homestead
  • XV. Population of Homestead and Munhall
  • Index

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