A Town Without Steel

A Town Without Steel
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780822980865
ISBN-13 : 082298086X
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Book Synopsis A Town Without Steel by : Judith Modell

Download or read book A Town Without Steel written by Judith Modell and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs by Charlee Brodsky In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world. The book details the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis. In some ways unique, and in some ways typical of American industrial towns, the plight of Homestead sheds light on social, cultural, and political developments of the late twentieth century. In this anthropological and photographic account of a town facing the crisis of deindustrialization, A Town Without Steel focuses on families. Reminiscent of Margaret Byington and Lewis Hine's approach in Homestead, Charlee Brodsky's photographs document the visual dimension of change in Homestead. The mill that dominated the landscape transformed to a vast, empty lot; a crowded commercial street turns into a ghost town; and an abundance of well-kept homes become an abandoned street of houses for sale. The individual narratives and family snapshots, Modell's interpretations, and Brodsky's photographs all evoke the tragedy and the resilience of a town whose primary source of self-identification no longer exists.


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