The Valley of Decision, By Marcia Davenport
Author: Marcia Davenport
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 790
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Author: Marcia Davenport
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 790
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marcia Davenport
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of four generations of the Scott family--owners and operators of a Pittsburgh iron and steel works--from 1873 through Pearl Harbor.
Author: Marcia Davenport
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780671780012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marcia Davenport
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel of New York city life, with a mixture of nationalities, tenement dwellers, cafe society, and the aristocracy, after World War II.
Author: John Prados
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781591146964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patricia McElligott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0738597910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany modern Irish Pittsburghers can trace their roots to immigrants fleeing an Ireland devastated by the Great Potato Famine of the mid-1800s. They migrated to Pittsburgh, a booming industrial town, and worked in the iron and steel mills, the mines, and the railroads. Irish women became domestic servants in such large numbers that "Bridget the Maid" was a stock character on stage and later in films. The immigrants settled in neighborhoods such as the Point, the Hill District, Homewood, and the North Side. Fighting anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiments, they paved the way for their children, who would dominate municipal politics and the Catholic Church and rise to surprising heights in sports, entertainment, and business. Gov. David L. Lawrence, dancer Gene Kelly, and boxing champion Billy Conn were three of these Irish Pittsburgh groundbreakers. Their success echoed the smaller, but equally significant, success of ordinary Pittsburghers who rose from poverty to middle class, from shantytown to "lace curtain" respectability in the neighborhoods and later in the suburbs of the city.
Author: Marcia Davenport
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis biography including an explanation of the movement for a free and united Italy.
Author: John Hoerr
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2014-07-22
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 082299111X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK• Choice 1988 Outstanding Academic Book • Named one of the Best Business Books of 1988 by USA TodayA veteran reporter of American labor analyzes the spectacular and tragic collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s. John Hoerr's account of these events stretches from the industrywide barganing failures of 1982 to the crippling work stoppage at USX (U.S. Steel) in 1986-87. He interviewed scores of steelworkers, company managers at all levels, and union officials, and was present at many of the crucial events he describes. Using historical flashbacks to the origins of the steel industry, particularly in the Monongahela Valley of southwestern Pennsylvania, he shows how an obsolete and adversarial relationship between management and labor made it impossible for the industry to adapt to shattering changes in the global economy.
Author: Agatha Young
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781494091958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Author: Ed Simon
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1953368131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEd Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this exploration of its hidden histories--the LA Review of Books calls it an "epic, atomic history of the Steel City." The land surrounding the confluence of the