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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Foreword by Tom Waseleski -- Homestead Revisited -- Editor's Foreword -- Part I. The Mill and the Town -- Chapter I. Homestead and the Great Strike -- Chapter II. The Make-up of the Town -- Part II. The English-Speaking Households -- Chapter III. Work, Wages, and the Cost of Living -- Chapter IV. Rent in the Household Budget -- Chapter V. Table and Dinner Pail -- Chapter VI. Other Expenditures: The Budget as a Whole -- Chapter VII. Of Human Relationships -- Chapter VIII. The Children of Homestead -- Part III. The Slav as a Homesteader -- Chapter IX. The Slavs |
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Chapter X. Life at 1.65 a Day -- Chapter XI. Family Life of the Slavs -- Chapter XII. The Slav Organized -- Part IV. The Mill and the Household -- Chapter XIII. The Mill and the Household -- Appendices -- I. Methods of Budget Study -- II. Tables giving general description and average weekly expenditure of each of the 90 budget families -- III. Employees in Homestead Plant of the United States Steel Corporation classified according to skill, citizenship, conjugal condition, etc., Mar. 1, 1907 |
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IV. Classification and Earnings of Employees in Three Representative Steel Plants in the Pittsburgh District -- V. An Act to Enable Borough Councils to Establish Boards of Health. State of Pennsylvania. 1893 -- VI. Report of the Board of Health of the Borough of Homestead for the year ending December 31, 1908 -- VII. Record of Casualties on Unprotected Grade Crossings, Homestead, 1905-1907 -- VIII. Seven-Day Labor -- IX. Cost of Living in Pittsburgh -- X. Ratings on Men Employed in Iron and Steel Industry, Prudential Insurance Company of America -- XI. Carnegie Relief Fund |
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XII. Accident Relief Plan of the United States Steel Corporation -- XIII. The Carnegie Library, Homestead -- XIV. Slavic Organizations in Homestead -- XV. Population of Homestead and Munhall -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homestead Steel Works -- History.
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Homestead Steel Works |
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Households -- Pennsylvania -- Homestead -- History -- 20th century.
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Steel-works -- Pennsylvania -- Homestead -- History -- 20th century.
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Homestead (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Homestead (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Households |
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Social conditions |
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Steel-works |
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Pennsylvania -- Homestead https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjMBpXt9CRKBmPMwwpQMP |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Author |
Waseleski, Tom, writer of foreword.
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Hays, Samuel P., writer of introduction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Byington, Margaret. Homestead. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2022 9780822966845 |
| ISBN |
9780822988830 (electronic book) |
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0822988836 (electronic book) |
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0822966840 |
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9780822966845 |
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