Steel and Steelworkers: Race and Class Struggle in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh

Breaks new ground in the study of an industry and region crucial to the history of American industrial capitalism.

Steel and Steelworkers is a fascinating account of the forces that shaped Pittsburgh, big business, and labor through the city's rapid industrialization in the mid-nineteenth century, its lengthy era of industrial "maturity," its precipitous deindustrialization toward the end of the twentieth century, and its reinvention from "hell with the lid off" to America's most livable (po...