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A Town without steel
1998
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Title
A town without steel: envisioning Homestead
Creator
Modell, Judith Schachter, 1941-
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Statement of Responsibility
Judith Modell ; photographs by Charlee Brodsky.
Date
1998
Identifier
31735062135433
Description
"In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of the home and the workplace, and details the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis. In some ways unique, and in some ways typical of other American industrial towns, the plight of Homestead sheds light on social, cultural, and political developments of the late twentieth century. Judith Modell has interviewed forty-five men and women - an array of voices and opinions that reflect the ways in which the mill closing affected the town across age, gender, and racial lines." "Charlee Brodsky's photographs serve to document the visual dimension of change in Homestead."--BOOK JACKET.
Extent
xxiv, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh
Type
text
Genre
bibliography
Subject
Homestead (Pa.)--History
Homestead (Pa.)--Social conditions
Plant shutdowns--Pennsylvania--Homestead--History--20th century
Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Homestead--History--20th century
Iron and steel workers--Pennsylvania--Homestead--History--20th century
Geographic Subjects
Homestead (Pa.)
Pennsylvania
Homestead
Language
eng
Collection
University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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