A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead

by Judith Schachter Modell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822956764
• ISBN13: 9780822956761
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A honest look at Homestead

Having once lived in the Mon valley and now living in DC, it was hard for me to swallow the authors various descriptions of Homestead. But as I make my journies back to my home town, I realize that the novel is just truthful. The author does an excellent job of describing the life and times of the current Mon Valley