Pennsylvania in Public Memory

Pennsylvania in Public Memory

Author: Carolyn Kitch

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 027106885X

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What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.


Industrial Heritage Re-tooled

Industrial Heritage Re-tooled

Author: James Douet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 131542651X

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This volume comprises the authoritative work from the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage – the international group dedicated to industrial archaeology and heritage – detailing the latest approaches to the conservation of the global industrial heritage. With contributions from over thirty specialists in archaeology and industrial heritage, Industrial Heritage Re-tooled establishes the first set of comprehensive best practices for the management, conservation, and interpretation of historical industrial sites. This book:-defines the meaning and scope of industrial heritage within an international context;-addresses the identification and conservation of the material remains of industry;-covers subjects as diverse as documentation and recording of industrial heritage, industrial tourism, and the teaching of industrial heritage in museums, schools, and universities.


Industrial Sunset

Industrial Sunset

Author: Steven High

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2003-12-15

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1442658525

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Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own displacement. The history of deindustrialization rendered in cultural terms reveals the importance of community and national identifications in how North Americans responded to the problem. Based on the plant shutdown stories told by over 130 industrial workers, and drawing on extensive archival and published sources, and songs and poetry from the time period covered, Steve High explores the central issues in the history and contemporary politics of plant closings. In so doing, this study poses new questions about group identification and solidarity in the face of often dramatic industrial transformation.


American Design Ethic

American Design Ethic

Author: Arthur J. Pulos

Publisher: Mit Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780262660570

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Describes the development of the design of manufactured goods and examines the interaction between the American culture and industrial design


American Heritage History of American Business

American Heritage History of American Business

Author: Alex Groner

Publisher: New Word City

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1612309372

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American business people have built the most creative and productive economy in world history. Here is the story of the men and women who made America - from Pilgrim traders to pioneers of the Industrial Revolution and the great innovators of the early twentieth century.


The Industrial Heritage

The Industrial Heritage

Author: Judith Alfrey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1134912277

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The Industrial Heritage is the first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management of the complex heritage of industrial cultures. It breaks new ground, as the authors (both active workers in the field) suggest that concepts of heritage defined to deal with pre-industrial cultures must be modified to deal with the very different demands presented by industrial objects and the societies which produced them. The essence of this book is practicality, offering examples of the real issues which confront those concerned with preserving and managing the industrial heritage.


Landscape of Industry

Landscape of Industry

Author: Worcester Historical Museum

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781584657774

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An illustrated history of the cradle of American industrialization


Making Steel

Making Steel

Author: Mark Reutter

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780252072338

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Making Steel chronicles the rise and fall of American steel by focusing on the fateful decisions made at the world's once largest steel mill at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Mark Reutter examines the business, production, and daily lives of workers as corporate leaders became more interested in their own security and enrichment than in employees, community, or innovative technology. This edition features 26 pages of photos, an author's preface, and a new chapter on the devastating effects of Bethlehem Steel's bankruptcy titled "The Discarded American Worker."