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Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linchpin for trade and migration between established eastern cities and the growing settlements of the Ohio Valley. Resources, geography, innovation, and personalities led to successful glass, iron, and eventually steel operations. As Pittsburgh blossomed into one of the largest cities in the country and became a center of industry, it generated great wealth for industrial and banking leaders. But immigrants and African American migrants, who labored under insecure, poorly paid, and dangerous conditions, did not share in the rewards of growth. Pittsburgh Rising traces the lives of individuals and families who lived and worked in this early industrial city, jammed into unhealthy housing in overcrowded neighborhoods near the mills. Although workers organized labor unions to improve conditions and charitable groups and reform organizations, often helmed by women, mitigated some of the deplorable conditions, authors Muller and Ruck show that divides along class, religious, ethnic, and racial lines weakened the efforts to improve the inequalities of early twentieth-century Pittsburgh--and persist today. … (plus d'informations)
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Edward K. Muller and Rob Ruck's new book, Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) provides a fascinating view of the development of Pittsburgh through the lense of individuals who lived it. While its not a view through rose colored glasses, it frames the activities of the region which are often brutal and distrubing -- yet it shows great resiliance and truimphs. While so many people view Pittsburgh through the stories of the 19th and early 20th century industrialists and financiers like Carnegie, Frick, Westinghouse, Heinz, and Mellon -- this book provides us with an examination of the lives of common and hard working people who, without their labor, committment to establishing communities, and caring for one another would not have made modern Pittsburgh possible.
The source material is rich. They bring together many separate academic studies on immigration, migration, industry, western expansion, war, and biography by scholars such as Bodnar, Gottlieb, Faires, Weber, Ingham, Tarr, Hays, Glasco, Couvares, Lubove, Montgomery, and Dickerson, into a cohesive focus, one that tells the story of the people of the region in engaging and approachable ways.
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Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linchpin for trade and migration between established eastern cities and the growing settlements of the Ohio Valley. Resources, geography, innovation, and personalities led to successful glass, iron, and eventually steel operations. As Pittsburgh blossomed into one of the largest cities in the country and became a center of industry, it generated great wealth for industrial and banking leaders. But immigrants and African American migrants, who labored under insecure, poorly paid, and dangerous conditions, did not share in the rewards of growth. Pittsburgh Rising traces the lives of individuals and families who lived and worked in this early industrial city, jammed into unhealthy housing in overcrowded neighborhoods near the mills. Although workers organized labor unions to improve conditions and charitable groups and reform organizations, often helmed by women, mitigated some of the deplorable conditions, authors Muller and Ruck show that divides along class, religious, ethnic, and racial lines weakened the efforts to improve the inequalities of early twentieth-century Pittsburgh--and persist today.
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The source material is rich. They bring together many separate academic studies on immigration, migration, industry, western expansion, war, and biography by scholars such as Bodnar, Gottlieb, Faires, Weber, Ingham, Tarr, Hays, Glasco, Couvares, Lubove, Montgomery, and Dickerson, into a cohesive focus, one that tells the story of the people of the region in engaging and approachable ways.
Excellent Read! Thanks Ted and Rob! (