Bøger i Pittsburgh Series in Social & Labor History serien

"The River Ran Red" commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the Homestead strike of 1892. The book recreates the events of that summer in excerpts from contemporary newspapers and magazines, reproductions of pen-and-ink sketches and photographs made on the scene, passages from the congressional investigation that resulted from the strike, first-hand accounts by observers and participants, and poems, songs, and sermons from across the country. Contributions by outstanding scholars provide the context for understanding the social and cultural aspects of the strike, as well as its violence.

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.

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