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A Town Without Steel : Envisioning Homestead by Judith Schachter Modell, Charlee Brodsky is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 household and work and place in this world. The book details the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis. In some ways unique, and in some ways typical of American industrial towns, the plight of Homestead sheds light on social, cultural, and political developments of the late twentieth century.In this anthropological and photographic account of a town facing the crisis of deindustrialization, A Town Without Steel focuses on families, Reminiscent of Margaret Byington and Lewis Hine's approach in Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town, the voices of longtime residents and new arrivals document the continuities as well as the changes in the life of a mill town over the decades. Kinship, networks, religion, race, and other elements of community provided residents with an alternative source of solidarity. Churches, schools, cultural values, traditional customs, kinship bonds, and a strong sense of family emerge from the interviews a

Who reads A Town Without Steel : Envisioning Homestead?

Author

Judith Schachter Modell, Charlee Brodsky

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press ; Eurospan

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822956761

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Travel