Books by S. J. Kleinberg

Investigates the importance of local economies and values in the origins of the welfare state through an exploration of widows' lives in three industrial American cities with widely differing economic, ethnic, and racial bases. This book presents a study of widows' welfare and family economy.

In this study of the steel mills of Pittsburgh in the 1880s, S.J. Kleinberg focuses on the private side of industrialization and urbanization, and on how the mills structured the everyday existence of the women, men and children who lived in their shadows.