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A town without steel : envisioning Homestead Judith Modell ; photographs by Charlee Brodsky
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Al F 159.H7 M63 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schachter, Judith, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plant shutdowns--Pennsylvania--Homestead--History--20th century.
- Plant shutdowns.
- Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Homestead--History--20th century.
- Steel industry and trade.
- Iron and steel workers--Pennsylvania--Homestead--History--20th century.
- Iron and steel workers.
- Homestead (Pa.)--History.
- Homestead (Pa.).
- Homestead (Pa.)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-336) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822956764 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 082294071X (cloth : acid-free paper)
- OCLC:
- 38738856
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