The headline, "Where Glass is King," emblazoned Toledo newspapers
in early 1888, before factories in the Ohio city had even produced
their first piece of glass. After years of struggling to find an
industrial base, Toledo had attracted Edward Drummond Libbey and
his struggling New England Glass Company to the shores of the
Maumee River, and many felt Toledo's potential as "The Future Great
City of the World" would at last be realized. The move was
successful - though not on the level some boosters envisioned - and
since 1888, Toledo glass factories have employed thousands of
workers who created the city's middle class and developed technical
innovations that impacted the glass industry worldwide. But as has
occurred in other cities dominated by single industries - from
Detroit to Pittsburgh to Youngstown - changes to the industry it
built have had a devastating impact on Toledo. Today, 45 percent of
all glass is manufactured in China. Well-researched yet accessible,
this new book explores how the economic, cultural, and social
development of the Glass City intertwined with its namesake
industry and examines Toledo's efforts to reinvent itself amidst
the Midwest's declining manufacturing sector.
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