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Author Lewis, Ronald L

Title Iron Artisans Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel
Published Minneapolis : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (315 p.)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface & Acknowledgments -- 1. The Transplanted -- 2. Transnational Institutions -- 3. Early American Iron and the Welsh Plan -- 4. The Age of Steel Begins -- 5. Welsh Tinplate and the McKinley Tariff -- 6. The Rise of the Trusts and Decline of Greater Alcania -- 7. Gender, Transnational Work Culture, and the Hetty Williams Affair -- 8. Republicanism and the Search for Success -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Firms of the American Tin-Plate Company -- Appendix 2. Firms of the United States Steel Company -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Welsh Americans -- Northeastern States -- History
Iron industry and trade -- United States -- History
Steel industry and trade -- United States -- History
HISTORY / General
Emigration and immigration.
Iron industry and trade.
Steel industry and trade.
Welsh Americans.
SUBJECT Wales -- Emigration and immigration -- History
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Subject Northeastern States.
United States.
Wales.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822989684
0822989689