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Author
Rudacille, Deborah.
Title
Roots of steel : boom and bust in an American mill town / Deborah Rudacille.
Imprint
New York : Pantheon Books, c2010.
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Axe Special Collections Rosen
338.4766914 R83R 2010
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Edition
1st ed.
Description
290 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-274) and index.
Contents
Patriots -- Roots -- Dirt -- guns -- Unity -- Liberty -- Boom -- Smoke -- Justice -- Reckoning -- Legacies -- Scrap.
Summary
Traces the history of a Maryland steel mill town where the author grew up as the daughter of a steelworker, a childhood during which she witnessed how the industry's decline and complicated social disputes put tens of thousands out of work.
Subject
Steel industry and trade -- Maryland -- Sparrows Point -- History.
Sparrows Point (Md.) -- Economic conditions.
Sparrows Point (Md.) -- History.
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Steel industry and trade. (OCoLC)fst01132646
Maryland -- Sparrows Point.
(OCoLC)fst01235370
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN
9780375423680
0375423680
1400095891 (pbk.)
9781400095896 (pbk.)
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