The glass city : Toledo and the industry that built it / Barbara L. Floyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Floyd, Barbara.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libbey, Edward Drummond, 1854-1925.

Libbey, Edward Drummond.

Glass manufacture--Ohio--Toledo--History.

Glass manufacture.

Businessmen--Ohio--Toledo--Biography.

Businessmen.

History.

Toledo (Ohio)--History.

Toledo (Ohio).

Toledo (Ohio)--Economic conditions.

Toledo (Ohio)--Biography.

Ohio--Toledo.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Glass is King"-that headline emblazoned Toledo newspapers in 1888, even before factories in the city had produced their first piece of glass. After years of striving to find an industrial base, Toledo had attracted Edward Drummond Libbey and his struggling New England Glass Company to the shores of the Maumee River, and many felt Toledo's potential as "The Future Great City of the World" would at last be fulfilled. Though Toledo fell short of this grand goal, there is no doubt that the glass industry was instrumental in the city's development. For over 125 years, Toledo glass factories have employed thousands of workers who created the city's middle class and developed technical innovations that impacted the world. But as occurred in other cities dominated by a single industry-like rubber in Akron, steel in Youngstown, and automobiles in Detroit-changes to the glass industry have had a deep and lasting impacton Toledo's economy. Today, 45 percent of all glass is manufactured in China-even the glass that encases the award-winning Toledo Museum of Art's Glass Pavilion where the city's glass heritage is honored was fabricated in China. In The Glass City, Barbara L. Floyd explores the foremost people, companies, and innovations behind the rise of Toledo glass within the context of the economic, social, political, and cultural development of Toledo. More than just a corporate chronicle, the book examines the interwoven histories of a city and its industry and how that common past produced the Toledo that exists today. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 In Search of Greatness 4

2 Boss-Town 18

3 The Man and His Machine 39

4 A Second Revolution 60

5 Bottles Everywhere, but Nothing to Drink 88

6 Building the World of Tomorrow 111

7 Expansion, Energy, and the Environment 138

8 Like Being Nowhere at All 166

9 Cracks in the Glass City 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472119455

9780472120642

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.5848800

Access Restriction:

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