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Hardcover Shadow of the Mills: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907 (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History) Book

ISBN: 0822935996

ISBN13: 9780822935995

Shadow of the Mills: Working-Class Families in Pittsburgh, 1870-1907 (Pittsburgh Series in Social and Labor History)

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The profound disruption of family relationships caused by industrialization found its most dramatic expression in the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1880s. The work day was twelve hours, and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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I disagree completely with the opinion of "nuclearmse." Kleinberg's book is the best picture of the working class of Pittsburgh in a period of tremendous industrial growth. Kleinberg's research is exemplary, and it is original research--census records, death notices, archives of churches and numerous social service organizations-- not a rehash of secondary sources. The narrative is sometimes too scholarly and packed with statistics, but her descriptions of the terrible hardships the mill workers and their families had to endure are very often deeply moving. This book should be read by everyone interested in the lives of the working class in America.
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