For more than a century Homestead, Pennsylvania, was the most important steel town in America. The center of the vast Carnegie empire known as U.S. Steel, Homestead fell into industrial decline, and by 1986 the entire operation had shut down. Now a former labor correspondent of The New York Times chronicles its rise and fall. 16 pages of photographs.
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For more than a century Homestead, Pennsylvania, was the most important steel town in America. The center of the vast Carnegie empire known as U.S. Steel, Homestead fell into industrial decline, and by 1986 the entire operation had shut down. Now a former labor correspondent of The New York Times chronicles its rise and fall. 16 pages of photographs.
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I had thought the book was going to cover mainly the 1892 strike at the Carnegie owned steel works in Homestead. Instead I found it a fascinating history of the steel industry, both the corporation side and the union side. It is also a book about the rise and fall of a single industry based small town America. Perhaps the most telling statement is found when the author mentions the early 1990s when it was fashionable "to say that the corporation (US Steel) and the rest of the steel industry had recovered from the massive downturns of the 1970s and 1980s" and gives some of the statistics. He then notes that "none of this took into consideration the loss of about 125,000 jobs at the corporation and 250,000 jobs in the American steel industry in the 1980s and early 1990s and the devastation that was visited upon Homestead and the other steel towns...." The book also points out it wasn't the workers and imports that caused the demise of the industry, but bad management decisions.
