Road to Rust
Road to Rust discusses the struggle and decline of the nation’s most prominent regional steel industry. With issues in Western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, it also covers the region’s steel industry and its struggle for unionism. This book also covers an account of labor unrest in the industry, with unionists such as Philip Murray, John L. Lewis, Samuel Gompers and Gus Hall fighting for fair wages, hours and working conditions. Road to Rust also contains tensions from issues of immigration, class, skill and race, unionism, and labor strife in the industry.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Making Steel
Chapter 2 The Human Costs of Making Steel
Chapter 3 The Corporation
Chapter 4 The First Sortie: The Strike of 1901
Chapter 5 The Aftermath of the Strike of 1901
Chapter 6 Jones & Laughlin
Chapter 7 Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909
Chapter 8 Organization Efforts Continue
Chapter 9 Living Conditions
Chapter 10 East Youngstown Strike of 1916
Chapter 11 World War I
Chapter 12 Strike of 1919
Chapter 13 "Times They Are A-Changing"
Chapter 14 The Depression
Chapter 15 Labor Remobilizes
Chapter 16 The SWOC
Chapter 17 The Document
Chapter 18 Little Steel Battles On
Chapter 19 Rust: The Rest of the Story
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index