Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town (2nd Edition)

First published in 1910 in the classic Pittsburgh Survey , this pioneering work of American social history, reproduced in its entirety, describes daily life in a community that was dominated economically and physically by the giant Homestead Works of the United States Steel Corporation. The town of Homestead, just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh, developed as a completely separate city—a true mill town settled by newer immigrants and shaped in its attitudes by the infamous Homestead Strike of 1892, which significantly set back unionization efforts in the steel industry. Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town not only focuses on the plight of the American steel worker in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it also explores the domestic and community aspects of life in that time period. Forword 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 "First published in 1910 in the classic Pittsburgh Survey, this pioneering work of American social history, reproduced in its entirety, describes daily life in a community that was dominated economically and physically by the giant Homestead Works of the United States Steel Corporation. The town of Homestead, just across the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh, developed as a completely separate city--a true mill town settled by newer immigrants and shaped in its attitudes by the infamous Homestead Strike of 1892, which significantly set back unionization efforts in the steel industry. Homestead:The Households of a Mill Town not only focuses on the plight of the American steel worker in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it also explores the domestic and community aspects of life in that time period." -- from the publisher's website An extensive look at early 20th-century Pittsburgh with vivid descriptions of urban social conditions in Homestead, Pennsylvania.