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Road to rust : the disintegration of the steel industry in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio / Dale Richard Perelman.
Lippincott Library HD9517.P4 P473 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perelman, Dale Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--History.
- Steel industry and trade.
- Steel industry and trade--Ohio--History.
- Strikes and lockouts--Steel industry.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- History.
- Ohio.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- The author charts the struggle and decline of the United States most prominent regional steel industry.
- Contents:
- Making steel
- The human costs of making steel
- The corporation
- The first sortie, the strike of 1901
- The aftermath of the strike of 1901
- Jones & Laughlin
- Pressed steel car strike of 1909
- Organization efforts continue
- Living conditions
- East Youngstown strike of 1916
- World War I
- Strike of 1919
- Times they are a-changing
- The depression
- Labor remobilizes
- The SWOC
- The document
- Little steel battles on
- Rust, the rest of the story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 179-183) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781467138543
- 1467138541
- OCLC:
- 1011680930
- Publisher Number:
- 99976753547
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