Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town

by Margaret F. Byington, Paul Underwood Kellogg, Russell Sage Foundation

Book Overview

Homestead, first published in 1910 as one volume in the classic Pittsburgh Survey, describes daily life in a community that was dominated economically and physically by the giant Homestead Works of the United States Steel Corporation. Homestead, just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh, developed as a completely separate city -- a true mill town settled by newer immigrants and shaped in its attitudes by the infamous Homestead Strike of 1892...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822982501
• ISBN13: 9780822982500
• Release Date: June 1974
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Homestead: The Households of a Milltown

I found this book extremely helpful for a report I was writing. I wouldn't recommend it as a casual read, or for anyone looking to get a comprehensive history. It is part of The Pittsburgh Survey series and, as the name implies, it is a survey- a cross-section of a narrow group of people at a specific time. I'll admit to a fascination with the history of Homestead and therefore a bias, but I liked the book so much I would like to buy a copy for myself.