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Book SynopsisIt is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Trade ReviewThe incorporation of historical geography enhances this engaging micro-study of US industrialization. Choice 2004 A richly written, vivid description of the complex relations between capital, individual agents, and place-making in a period of industrial restructuring. -- James Defilippis Labor History 2005 I highly recommend this book, thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and expect that many others will do the same. -- John Benhart, Jr. Pennsylvania Geographer 2005 Mosher's fine book examines one of the most important ways that technological change shapes human society. -- Anne Kelly Knowles Technology and Culture 2006 This is a wonderful book that places an important model city in the larger context of the constantly evolving societal and geographical relations between capital and labor. -- Dean Sinclair Journal of Cultural Geography 2006 Mosher has written an excellent book. Her prose is clear and unencumbered by jargon and appropriately illustrated with photographs, maps, and data tables. Cultural Geographies 2007
Table of ContentsExperimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley iron industry; Apollo's uneasy transition from iron to steel; The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot plan for Vandergrift; Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula; The steel strike of 1901; Growing pains for a "model town".
