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The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892 - Politics, Culture, and Steel (Paperback, New)
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The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892 - Politics, Culture, and Steel (Paperback, New)
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Named one of the fifty best books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly More
than a century has passed since the infamous lockout at the
Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company. The dramatic and
violent events of July 6, 1892, are among the mst familiar in the
history of American labor. And yet, few historians have adequately
addressed the issues and the culture that shaped that day. For many
Americans, Homestead remains simply the story of a bloody clash
between management and labor. In The Battle for Homestead, Paul
Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history,
intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology
to situate the events of the lockout and their significance in the
broad context of America's Guilded Age. Utilizing extensive
archival material, much of it heretofore unknown, he reconstructs
the social, intellectual, and political climate of the burgeoning
post-Civil War steel industry. The Battle for Homestead brings to
life many of the individuals -both in and outside Homestead- who
played a role in the events leading to July 1892. From the inventor
of the modern Bessemer steel mill to the most obscure immigrant
workers, from Christopher L. Magee, the "boss" of Pittsburgh
machine politics, to Thomas A. Armstrong, the tireless editor of
the National Labor Tribune, from the "Laird of Skibo" himself
(Andrew Carnegie) to the labor leader and mayor of Homestead, "Old
Beeswax" (Thomas W. Taylor), Krause shows how all these lives
became intertwined, often in surprising and unpredictable ways, as
the drama of the lockout unfolded. As the nineteenth century was
drawing to a close, the Homestead Lockout dramatized the
all-important question: Can the land of industry and technological
innovation continue to be "the land of the free"? Can material
progress, with its inevitable social and economic inequities, be
made compatible with the American commitment to democracy for all?
Twentieth-century history has demonstrated all too clearly the
intesity of this dilemma. In addressing some of the thorniest
issues of the last century, The Battle for Homestead demonstrates
the enduring legacy and relevance of Homestead over a century
later.
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