Title Homestead : the households of a mill town / Margaret F. Byington ; with a new foreword by Tom Waseleski and with an introduction by Samuel P. Hays

Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Intro -- Foreword by Tom Waseleski -- Homestead Revisited -- Editor's Foreword -- Part I. The Mill and the Town -- Chapter I. Homestead and the Great Strike -- Chapter II. The Make-up of the Town -- Part II. The English-Speaking Households -- Chapter III. Work, Wages, and the Cost of Living -- Chapter IV. Rent in the Household Budget -- Chapter V. Table and Dinner Pail -- Chapter VI. Other Expenditures: The Budget as a Whole -- Chapter VII. Of Human Relationships -- Chapter VIII. The Children of Homestead -- Part III. The Slav as a Homesteader -- Chapter IX. The Slavs Chapter X. Life at 1.65 a Day -- Chapter XI. Family Life of the Slavs -- Chapter XII. The Slav Organized -- Part IV. The Mill and the Household -- Chapter XIII. The Mill and the Household -- Appendices -- I. Methods of Budget Study -- II. Tables giving general description and average weekly expenditure of each of the 90 budget families -- III. Employees in Homestead Plant of the United States Steel Corporation classified according to skill, citizenship, conjugal condition, etc., Mar. 1, 1907 IV. Classification and Earnings of Employees in Three Representative Steel Plants in the Pittsburgh District -- V. An Act to Enable Borough Councils to Establish Boards of Health. State of Pennsylvania. 1893 -- VI. Report of the Board of Health of the Borough of Homestead for the year ending December 31, 1908 -- VII. Record of Casualties on Unprotected Grade Crossings, Homestead, 1905-1907 -- VIII. Seven-Day Labor -- IX. Cost of Living in Pittsburgh -- X. Ratings on Men Employed in Iron and Steel Industry, Prudential Insurance Company of America -- XI. Carnegie Relief Fund XII. Accident Relief Plan of the United States Steel Corporation -- XIII. The Carnegie Library, Homestead -- XIV. Slavic Organizations in Homestead -- XV. Population of Homestead and Munhall -- Index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2022) Subject Homestead Steel Works -- History SUBJECT Homestead Steel Works fast Subject Households -- Pennsylvania -- Homestead -- History -- 20th century Steel-works -- Pennsylvania -- Homestead -- History -- 20th century Households Social conditions Steel-works SUBJECT Homestead (Pa.) -- History -- 20th century Homestead (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Pennsylvania -- Homestead Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Waseleski, Tom, writer of foreword Hays, Samuel P., writer of introduction ISBN 9780822988830 0822988836

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