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Pittsburgh Rising - From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 (Hardcover)
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Pittsburgh Rising - From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 (Hardcover)
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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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