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OverviewBreaks new ground in the study of an industry and region crucial to the history of American industrial capitalism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John HinshawPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9780791452264ISBN 10: 0791452263 Pages: 348 Publication Date: 04 April 2002 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments A Note on Historiography 1. The Secret of Industrialization in Pittsburgh 2. From Great Depression to Great Fear: The ""Warfare State"" in Steel 3. Cold War Pittsburgh: 1949--1959 4. The Road to Deindustrialization: Pittsburgh and the Steel Industry, 1960--1977 5. The Lean Years: 1978--2000 Notes Index Name Index"Reviews...a well-researched, ambitious attempt to analyze the intersection of race and gender in the steel industry in Western Pennsylvania over nearly four decades. It effectively conveys a sense of shop floor dynamics while also taking account of important developments in the structure of the industry and in political and community life. - Martin Halpern, author of UAW Politics in the Cold War Era This book analyzes the history of racial discrimination in the steel industry in the context of an original model of the political economy of steel production and labor relations. - Robert Asher, Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835-1960 Author InformationJohn Hinshaw is Assistant Professor of History at Lebanon Valley College. He is the coeditor, with Paul LeBlanc, of U.S. Labor in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Working-Class Struggles and Insurgency and, with Peter Stearns, of ABC-CLIO World History Companion to the Industrial Revolution. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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