Out of the Crucible: Black Steel Workers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980

by Dennis C. Dickerson

Book Overview

This book examines in depth the century-long struggle of Black laborers in the iron and steel industry of western Pennsylvania. In the process it shows how the fate of these Black workers mirrors the contemporary predicament of the Black working class and the development of a chronically unemployed underclass in America's declining industrial centers. Dickerson argues that persistent racial discrimination within heavy industry and the decline of major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887063063
• ISBN13: 9780887063060
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"