Books in the Pittsburgh Series in Social & Labor History series

Utilizing extensive archival material Krause reconstructs the social, intellectual, and political climate of the burgeoning post-Civil War steel industry.

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.