Title A town without steel : envisioning Homestead / Judith Modell ; photographs by Charlee Brodsky

Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1998] ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 341 pages) : illustrations, maps Series University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions PPiU University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections PPiU Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-336) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject 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 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 SUBJECT Homestead (Pa.) -- History Homestead (Pa.) -- Social conditions Subject Pennsylvania -- Homestead Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822980865 082298086X

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